the other for a $1.6 million settlement in a case accusing a pharmaceutical firm that he worked at of medicare fraud. while the justice department wants to up rewards for whistleblowers are we just incident fizing americans to become a nation of snitches? steve what do you think? >> absolutely. when you have rewards like that you're going to have 999 people going, trying to win the lottery, by going on thissish iffing expedition. and a lot of wasted effort. all this does is encourage a lot of snitching and in the case of bank of america, they didn't do anything wrong, they bought a company during the crisis at the behest of the government that did wrong things and then they got shaken down by the politicians. so leave well enough alone. >> mike, ensentincentives do matter. you look at the number of whistleblower lawsuits. the cases have been going up dramatically over the past several years. >> i'm going to snitch for no money now. steve had a doughnut before we