There are two criteria for protection in the quote:
* Come in early
* Give complete and truthful disclosures
Come in early is a clear problem, I agree, partly because as I recall the way penalties are structured means everyone has an incentive to let it happen for as long as they can be confident that no-one else will implicate them.
However, the information we have is that he didn't initially reveal that he was a part of the illegal scheme.
The whole point of whistleblowing legislation is to permit those involved with conspiracies to come forwards and expose their fellow conspirators in exchange for their own liberty. I apologise for inadvertent selective quotation but he was trying to have his cake and eat it; to gain the credit for exposing the wrongdoing of others while withholding details of his own wrongdoing, thus distorting the evidential picture. Whistleblowing law is designed to let people in his situation bring down others by breaking the devil's pact of mutual downfall that would otherwise result, and so by definition to gain this unusual protection requires candid self-incrimination.
* Come in early
* Give complete and truthful disclosures
Come in early is a clear problem, I agree, partly because as I recall the way penalties are structured means everyone has an incentive to let it happen for as long as they can be confident that no-one else will implicate them.
However, the information we have is that he didn't initially reveal that he was a part of the illegal scheme.
The whole point of whistleblowing legislation is to permit those involved with conspiracies to come forwards and expose their fellow conspirators in exchange for their own liberty. I apologise for inadvertent selective quotation but he was trying to have his cake and eat it; to gain the credit for exposing the wrongdoing of others while withholding details of his own wrongdoing, thus distorting the evidential picture. Whistleblowing law is designed to let people in his situation bring down others by breaking the devil's pact of mutual downfall that would otherwise result, and so by definition to gain this unusual protection requires candid self-incrimination.