The company thought it was a security issue and reported the case to the FBI, who began monitoring Mark's phone. Mark exposes to FBI agents Brian (Scott Bakula) and Robert (Joel McHale) that ADM is working with other companies to engage in worldwide monopoly pricing, and that he has a technical background. After the business, I found out that there were illegal things around, and I felt sorry for being forced to deceive people, so I wanted to be a white hat hacker and just want to do the right thing. So Mark used the wiretapping equipment provided by the FBI as an informant for the FBI and began to record and collect evidence of the company's crimes.
When the evidence was collected and the FBI began to investigate and prepare to go to court, ADM executives found evidence that Mark forged signatures and received kickbacks. The situation turned sharply, because Mark’s behavior broke the agreement between him and the US government, and he was no longer a cooperation with the FBI. witness. The FBI launched an investigation into him, and Mark invited a lawyer to help him. He began to save himself by telling lies. In the end, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison for fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, etc., while the two company executives were only sentenced to 3 years in prison. Political and government fines cost half a billion dollars.
Mark read three more graduate students in prison, and became the COO of Cyprus after being released from prison.
"My parents died in a car accident when I was six years old, and I was adopted by a wealthy man in Ohio who owned a playground. It was a big turning point in my life."
Mark is a smart guy from start to finish, but he wears the mask of an honest man. He injects a virus in glucose to blackmail the company, and plans to get the money and move to Mexico with his wife and children. When the FBI intervened in the investigation, Mark diverted the FBI's attention with monopoly pricing and turned himself into a cooperating witness. In fact, it was to bring down his boss and become the president himself, and he had already made a sum of money to leave him a way out. Mark also deceived the FBI into thinking that he was stupid, not to be a whistleblower with an annual salary of $350,000, and also asked the FBI if he could continue to work in the company if he went to court.
There are too many narrations of the protagonist's narration, but they basically have little to do with the main storyline, so reading the subtitles is tiring. I really don't see any laughs in this film, and the plot appeal is also limited.
The film is based on true events.
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