>It's very weird and makes me believe there is something more to the story. Like a very fat check, not just the regular incentives or even plain old kickbacks.

>It's very weird and makes me believe there is something more to the story. Like a very fat check, not just the regular incentives or even plain old kickbacks. It could be, though whenever I get interested in a case like that after the facts, it ends up in a version of someone in a company noticing something is fishy, and someone else pulling rank on them telling them to back down not to upset a very lucrative client. Just be quiet because I'm getting calls from the fishy company's boss threatening to take their business to another firm. Don't be rude, we're making a good buck with them. It's also their model of independent entities sharing a name, with varying degrees of scrutiny and diligence. It's interesting how incentive structure and checks have to be dialed in the bigger, more distributed an actor gets.