I worked at a company where the CIO routinely bought technologies for us to use, but we never did as they were mostly pointless to our business. He also always

I worked at a company where the CIO routinely bought technologies for us to use, but we never did as they were mostly pointless to our business. He also always wrote articles for the companies bragging how much the software improved our business. One time one company sent a PR person to interview us and they were astonished to find out we never used it. Long after I left he was perp walked out of the company by a new CEO; turned out they company finally hired someone with more tech knowledge than this guy. Of course he had been taking kickbacks but knew just enough to convince the other execs we "needed" it. A week later he had another CIO job. I think he was fired from that one too. No idea if he was ever put on trial, probably the case was too embarrassing to pursue.