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Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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Every time this story comes up, the comments are filled with people proclaiming that kickbacks like this are totally normal and very common. I can't tell how much of it is random people projecting their cynicism onto the business world, or if it's people who have been part of bribery/kickback schemes themselves trying to normalize the behavior online. Either way, cases like this should make it clear that the behavior…

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Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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> and serve a three term of supervision upon release from prison. Is there a typo in there, is that just a weird legal term, or is it just me that has a hard time processing what that means?

Likely the missing word is Year - ie: he get three years probation after release.

That makes sense. I just figured that an official release from a government site (I checked the URL after I stumbled on this sentence a couple times to make sure it wasn't some random law blog, but an official .gov site) would be a bit better proof-read, so didn't want to assume. Also, I probably still need another 30 minutes for the coffee this morning to fully suffuse into my being so I can function like a normal person.

Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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Why risk this even? Surely, he's making much more than 700K as an exec in the first place.

Very well-compensated people apparently can get sufficiently unmoored from a moral compass that they 1.) think the rules don't apply to them and 2.) just don't stop to consider that morals/ethics aside what they're doing is a really dumb potentially life-ruining risk.

Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

#25
I had a boss at a major university who might've done this had he thought he could get away with it. Instead, he kept his greed down to an "acceptable" level of theft of university property for personal use and exploitation of vendor's client entertainment allowances.

Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes sense, haha. That probably is the word I would have removed as well in that case. :)

HN should really increase the max title length, there's plenty of space and the current limit often requires important details to be cut out

But it isn't truly Hacker News unless it's formatted to be read on an 80 column monitor.

Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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Why risk this even? Surely, he's making much more than 700K as an exec in the first place.

It probably wasn't just the $700k he was thinking about. I'd guess he was likely aiming for a larger sum over time.

Re: Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

#28
Why is this even illegal? Perks in the industry is normal. People are always trying to get their own businesses front and center for contracts. Some of these companies just don't have much to give out other than equity and what exactly is wrong about that?
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