OP - the people involved only want to cover their arses, and they're all using you to do it. This is unjust, but unfortunately it's also normal. Time to stop talking and focus 100% on avoiding conviction by working carefully with your lawyer.
Any decent lawyer would look for an opportunity to turn this around on them.
He *may* have broken the law, but if he didn't commit financial crimes with the information he obtained and was falsely accused of them, lost his job over it, and was prosecuted for the false claims then he definitely has damages, some of which would fall under libel. This could go not so great for "Whistlr" if the information found in process shows that they maligned him.
