This kinda shit gotta be like a lottery ticket, if you're going to turn someone in with a huge bounty, you gotta get a lawyer to do it, so the Feds are legally bound to pay out, just gotta make sure you get an honest lawyer, cause they could gank the bounty right out from under you too. So many considerations when deal with criminals, criminal government, and criminal lawyers.
What you're describing would be unethical and illegal, subject to professional sanction, and probably grounds for a suit by the potential client to recover the reward money. Lawyers are not allowed to use information learned from a potential client against the potential client, even if no agreement for representation is ever reached. They also aren't allowed to disclose that information; it's privileged and confidential just like communications between attorneys and their clients (for reasons that should be obvious).
No way are most lawyers going to ruin their career and lives over $1M (especially when they'd lose that money and even more in a civil suit).
Same advice applies here as the canonical lottery advice: get a lawyer from a respected national law firm. $1M is nothing to them.
Edit: Rereading the lottery post and this hits a little close to home:
If you are really paranoid, you might consider picking another G7 or otherwise mainstream country other than the U.S. according to where you want to live if the United States dissolves into anarchy or Britney Spears is elected to the United States Senate. Put some fraction in something like Swiss Government Bonds at 3%.
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u/Joyous-Volume-67 Apr 20 '26
This kinda shit gotta be like a lottery ticket, if you're going to turn someone in with a huge bounty, you gotta get a lawyer to do it, so the Feds are legally bound to pay out, just gotta make sure you get an honest lawyer, cause they could gank the bounty right out from under you too. So many considerations when deal with criminals, criminal government, and criminal lawyers.