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I know someone who converted to Judaism, yet throughout the whole process was telling me personally (so I can't tell the Rabbi) that she wasn't interested in keeping Torah AT ALL but was telling the Rabbis that she was. After the Geirus (conversion) she went back to behaving like a gentile.
Is she Jewish? Are her kids?
I can't ask the Rabbi in this case, as he will know who I am talking about. Whom can I go to for advice on what to do?
I'd say try anonymously contacting Rabbi Zylberman, who is involved in official Orthodox conversion standards for many institutions; he'll best know what to do (if anything) depending on the specifics of the case.
But this is a job for a professional.
Though honestly if the new convert is clearly keeping absolutely nothing whatsoever immediately post-conversion, I'd assume the local rabbi will find out sooner or later on his own.
Israeli rabbinic courts have attempted to nullify conversions by other courts where they considered that the convert was not sincere at the time of the conversion. The Rabbinical Council of America has objected: See http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2008/05/06/999936/rca-speaks-out-against-attempts-to-nullify-conversions. In favor of nulification is the thought that if one did not have the actual intent to keep the mitzvot at the time of conversion, then the conversion should be invalidated. The other view is that once you commit to being Jewish, G-d will judge you as if you were, and punish you for sins only a Jew can be punished for.
