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Their story is spellbinding and inspirational. If a marriage can endure this, then we can endure most anything.
Ginger and Mark have three grown children. In 1984, they adopted two older children when they were five and seven years of age and they received their third child within months of adopting the other two. Their youngest son was born in 1985 while they were living in Germany.
Hear the incredible true story of Mark & Ginger Whitacre. Mark, a top level executive at a Fortune 500 company, became a whistle-blower to a huge price fixin...
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Jul 30, 2024 · Imagine uncovering corporate fraud at the highest levels while juggling the complexities of marriage, family life and a high powered corporate job. Join Mark and Ginger Whitacre, the real-life inspirations behind the movie "The Informant," as they recount their extraordinary journey.
- Jordan Langdon
- The Investigation
- His Indictment
- His Sentence
- A Changed Man
- Post-Prison Career
- Finding The Faith
- Bi-Polar Diagnosis
- A Sympathetic Figure
- Immortalized on Film
- Praying For A Pardon
Whitacre’s decision to blow the whistle on ADM’s illegal activities would see him spend the next three years working hand-in-hand with the FBI in securing the information necessary to complete their investigations. The wired- up whistleblower secretly recorded conversations between ADM executives and the company’s competitors, gathering all the evi...
Prior to his involvement in the price-fixing investigation, Whitacre was one of ADM’s rising stars. As the head of one of the company’s fastest growing divisions, the young businessman seemed all set to take the company’s helm after the retirement of then president, James Randall. That all changed when in 1995, Whitacre was given his marching order...
By the time of his court case, Whitacre had given up his insistence of innocence. During his hearing in front of US District Court Judge Harold Baker, Whitacre entered pleas of guiltyto all charges, admitting to taking ADM for almost $9 million through an intricate scheme involving imaginary companies, fake invoices and a network of overseas bank a...
Prison clearly gave Whitacre ample time to reflect on the decisions and actions that had led to his incarceration. By the time of his release, he was a changed man, and able to take full responsibly for his shady past. “I had a sense of entitlement and felt like anything I took was mine; the company owed it to me because I worked hard enough. I tho...
While many convicts have a hard time finding a job after serving time, Mark Whitacre faced no such problem. Fresh from prison in December 2006, Whitacre was hired by biotech company, Cypress Systems Inc. The company was clearly not deterred by Whitacre’s past, appointing the ex-con the prime position of President of Technology and Business Developm...
In addition to his daily 9-5 with Cypress, Whitacre serves as a speaker on ethics at cooperate events (notable examples include a talk on second chances at the Quantico FBI Academy in 2011, and serving as keynote speaker at the 40th Annual NAPSA Conference in 2012 along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr). Whitacre also acts as the spokesperson and COO for ...
One of the key achievements of Whitacre’s post- prison life has been raising awareness of mental illness. Whitacre, who now counsels’ inmates with psychiatric disorders, has suggested many of the decisions he made in the past were the result of untreated bipolar disorder. “Only a person with untreated bipolar disorder would have done some of the th...
In 2000, former New York Times journalist Kurt Eichenwald helped turn the tide of public opinionon Whitacre with The Informant, an account of Whitacre’s involvement in the case against ADM that portrays the whistleblower as a complex, sympathetic figure. According to Eichenwald, Whitacre’s initial motivation for his embezzlement of ADM was the fina...
In September 2009, Whitacre was immortalized on film when Warner Bros released The Informant!The Steven Soderbergh directed comedy/ drama (which was based on Kurt Eichenwald’s book of the same name) saw Matt Damon take the part of a pre-indicted Whitacre. The feature centers on some of the bizarre behaviors (such as his decision to clear his drivew...
Since his release from prison, Whitacre has been joined by a legion of supporters in calling for a presidential pardon. The campaign was initiated by a group of loyal factions in the FBI and Department of Justice, including Dean Paisley, an FBI agent involved in the original investigation into ADM, 2 other FBI agents, 2 prosecutors from the Canadia...
Mark and Ginger Whitacre share their story of scandal, prison, Christ, and redemption at the 2018 Christian Fellowship Breakfast in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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