A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower, exposing his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI. As he envisions himself being hailed as a hero, Whitacre secretly gathers hundreds of hours of video and audio evidence, taping his co-workers in business meetings around the globe. But in a stunning twist, headlines worldwide report that Whitacre had embezzled $9 million from his own company, and his own life begins to spiral out of control. In the end, Whitacre is sentenced to prison, but not before he makes a futile appeal for a presidential pardon.
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