Corrupt boss

I am the branch manager at a office. My district manager, who also works out of my office, is absolutely corrupt. He shows up at the office for only an hour a day, not when we open, but at around 10am, he does no work while here. He spends his time...

while he is here telling me stories about what he did the night before, his new house, boat, car, or walking around getting people riled up over nothing. He is of no use to anyone who works here, as he has no idea what is going on with the employees, or with 99% of our customers or vendors. The other 1% he knows because he spends $100,000 a year in personal expenses (on his expense account) wining, dining, and vacationing (trips to Italy) with them. He expenses babysitters, nail glue for his wife, his country club membership, dinner every night, all to the company. No one at corporate looks at his expenses other than a clerk who cuts the checks, because of his title he doesn't have to have his expenses approved by anyone. Corporate is adament that the everyone in the company, across the US cut expenses because sales are down. My boss is currently on everyone about their expenses, and forcing a no-overtime rule, and now is forcing me to fire someone, to "keep our expenses down". While he continues to spend even more than he ever has in the past, he is up to $43,850 so far this year. The person he is having me get rid of has worked here 28 years, and is a dedicated employee. I have an enormous problem with all of this. Everyone here know what he spends, we all would like to do something about it. Like go to corporate with all his misdeeds, bring it to someones attention, anonymously. 3 years ago this guy went to jail for 3 months, and coporate didn't even know it (I wasn't the boss then, just another employee), he continued to collect a regular paycheck! It is the consensus that corporate wouldn't do anything, and whomever turned him in, if they were able to determine who it was, would be fired. I can't work like this, I feel I have a moral obligation to do something, but I don't want to lose my job. What should I do??

thats pretty rough, it would definatley piss me off. if you think you can get away with reporting him anonymously, I'd say go for it. But don't put your job at risk. There is alway's some big wig in charge that doesn't know what the hell is going on, but still gets paid more than everyone else. Your boss seems to be the most exreme case I've ever heard of though. But im pretty sure you can get away with an anonymous letter to corporate, especially if you say everyone knows what he's doing. But if its to risky don't do it, every job has people like that, thats just crazy he hasn't been caught though

Let the person who's been targetted to be fired know that your boss has targetted them to be fired

The obvious answer then, is to have the person that's getting fired present all this to corporate BEFORE they're fired. Corporate might decide to fire the highly paid freeloader instead.