It's wild that people find such an idea unthinkable. The dude was suing Boeing for their retaliatory actions against him in an effort to shut him up about the

It's wild that people find such an idea unthinkable. The dude was suing Boeing for their retaliatory actions against him in an effort to shut him up about the safety violations he was in the middle of testifying about. Just in 2022 there was a case of murder-for-hire of a whistleblower at a contract tree-cutting service in Georgia [0]. It's not common, and we shouldn't presume guilt, but it's very far from unprecedented. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Eliud_Montoya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Eliud_Montoya