Comment by redleggedfrog

If you commissioned a study for 420K, got it, ignored it cause you didn't like the results, and then refused to honor freedom of information requests by ignoring them, too, I'd be trying to find a way to put you in prison.

It's really no different than just stealing the 420K directly, unless you had cohorts at the company doing the study and it was just plain corruption, which is no better.