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Why weren't these companies charged as well? They are paying bribes to an executive to use their products and services. If you were caught paying bribes to a (

• borski 5y ago
  It's about knowledge, and depends on how it was presented to the companies. If the originator of the bribe was Kail, and if it was not presented as a quid-pro-quo, the companies may not have known better and would have assumed that he is disclosing the relationship appropriately to his company. The startups would have to disclose it within their own company, but they weren't playing both sides and were not effectively 'stealing' from their own company or from Netflix; Kail, on the other hand, was taking money directly from the pile Netflix was owed, and not disclosing it.