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"And it was all legal."

In some states.

It sounds like you thought there was nothing wrong with kickbacks. That's concerning. The dictionary definition of a kickback is a concealed, usually illegal payment, a form of bribe. Whereas the dictionary definition of a rebate is a portion of the sum paid returned to the purchaser. If you knew you would be helping these people to process kickbacks then why work for them.

Honest question.



I didn’t get that perspective at all. Or rather, he knew that it was wrong, but that the lawyers at his company had decided they could do it within the law, somehow, or at least in the margins.

Right != Legal, always. And vice versa.


Alternative interpretation is that he knew it was wrong but stayed with the company anyway. That would also be concerning.




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