Comment by hirako2000
2 days ago
That's like giving them* $20.
And inflate your revenue by $80.
Laws on competition make this kind of arrangements illegal, so you would have to exerce influence and have the invested in company pretends you happen to have been picked among competitors.
In any case the SEC will be focused on whether the filings aren't made up to fraud investors, so they could reject the IPO, of the invested in company. Your own entity also is at risk.
We all know MS gets away with it, they have good legal goons who find way to make all of it appears fair with regards to the law.
>they have good legal goons who find way to make all of it appears fair with regards to the law
I thought it was more that the legal goons delay the final judgement until Microsoft can eventually find someone they can (technically legally) bribe to drop the case?
Swallowing a few millions dollars fine will do. The DOJ needs to fund the whole department. By then MS will have moved onto other things, rinse and repeat.