> “Bribery and kickbacks are pernicious crimes that stifle Silicon Valley’s culture of competitive innovation,” said Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds. “Michael Kail used his highly compensated Netflix position to siphon cash and valuable stock options from his tech vendors, the same vendors whose Netflix contracts he signed and whose technologies he pushed his teams to use. Such crimes come with a cost, as reflected by the prison sentence that Kail will now serve.”

So the person took bribes and hurt other tech vendors and the corporation. Sure. But suppose you hurt the organization and partners by being incompetent at your work. Or having bad judgement, or being lazy, or a million other things. Would it be okay to send those people to prison?

"Pay-to-Play" isn't illegal. I don't even know what it is. Coke pays to have their beverage in AMC theaters. Is that pay to play? Is Pepsi more worthy of that slot? "Money Laundering" is incredibly broad and can be applied to a lot of things.