There’s a huge network of financial controls to prevent and detect this sort of thing, it’s one of the foundations of the fields of accounting. Often there are departments looking for fraud regularly.

I suspect small or medium organizations rather then megacorps would be easier targets if they haven’t invested money in accounting controls.

A $5m covert negotiation with the USG has a decent chance of securing the desired payout.

Plenty, if not all, corporate level financial controls will be bypassed by the executive branch showing up in suits.

I don’t think the criminals wanted it overt. They weren’t expecting the pipeline to be shut down which is what made everything public.

It didn't work in Office Space.

You do know office space is fictional, right?

I thought it was a documentary?

I don't know that it is. You should have seen my last workplace.