This case focuses on an employee in the asset management division of the Birmingham-based Healthsouth who suspects possible fraud in the company's accounting practices. A highly successful outpatient surgery, rehabilitation, and diagnostic imaging company, Healthsouth had been founded and was run by Richard Scrushy, whose generosity was legendary in Birmingham, Alabama, but whose autocratic and sometimes ruthless management style contrasted sharply with his charismatic, up-by-the-bootsteps entrepreneurial energy.