Senior member of firm me too'd

Ignore the job title, it's a burner. Without sharing too much information, I recently discovered that a senior member of my firm was me too'd at a prior firm resulting in a payout and him leaving. I think the founders of the firm are aware of this information and trying to conceal it. 

What would you do in a situation like this? Sit quiet on it? Leverage it for personal gain? Leak it to expose him? When and how would you use this to your advantage? Or would you not?

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In what way does this individual getting fired and then finding a new job at your firm provide you leverage? What am I missing? I would continue to focus on your job and not inject yourself in a situation in which you don’t actually know what’s even actively going on in. It’s not like your firm is covering up the sexual harassment of one of their employees.

 
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Worth pointing out that a not small number of the #metoo claims turned out to be either lies or gross misrepresentations of behavior taking advantage of the climate, yet many companies still found it easier to just send a payout and get NDAs signed to avoid potential bad publicity. The adage of "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" holds truer these days than ever with viral social media. This isn't to immediately discount whether or not the senior you're talking about is guilty of some sort of untoward behavior, but perhaps it's worth doing more digging before making assumptions.

How did you find out? If you did, why can't others have as well and perhaps have even more details than you? What gave you the impression the founders of your firm know and are trying to hide it? What does this individual know/do that let them get re-hired anyway if everything you know about the situation is accurate?

This all sounds like leaps and assumptions unless you somehow got ahold of a transcript of a meeting where they explicitly discussed this (which I'm sure wouldn't exist).  

What would you do in a situation like this? Sit quiet on it? Leverage it for personal gain? Leak it to expose him? When and how would you use this to your advantage?

This isn't TV this is real life, you have no leverage. You're a nobody - an easily replaceable junior employee that could be gone tomorrow and no one would bat an eye. All you'd accomplish by trying anything like this is getting yourself fired, likely with a negative reference and potentially blackballed entirely unless you find some no-name fund no one knows or cares about. This industry is small and burned bridges early in your career are nothing to scoff at. Unless you're the victim of said senior's behavior you going around spreading other people's dirty laundry is not going to get you any positive looks, you'll just be a gossip no one wants to deal with.    

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