Data Consulting Group contracted with Weston Medsurg Center, PLLC, a health-care facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, to install, maintain, and manage Weston’s computers and software. At about the same time, Ginger Blackwood began to work for Weston as a medical billing and coding specialist. Soon, she was submitting false time reports and converting Weston documents and data to her own purposes. At Blackwood’s request, Data Consulting manager Nasko Dinev removed evidence of Blackwood’s actions from her work computer. [ Weston Medsurg Center, PLLC v. Blackwood, 795 S.E.2d 829 (N.C. Ct.App. 2017)] (See Fraudulent Misrepresentation.) 

(a) What should Weston do when it learns of these activities? With respect to this situation, identify and consider the firm’s primary ethical dilemma using the IDDR approach. 

(b) Suppose that despite Dinev’s efforts, Weston is later able to recover the data that was removed from Blackwood’s work computer. How might this affect Weston’s choices? Discuss.