[gambiting]

Yeah I don't think there's a crime here, not in a legal sense. I work at a large software company where doing this is prohibited by contract and you can be dismissed due to it, but I'm not aware of any legal problems outside of this.

[khuey]

At least in California this is "commercial bribery" which is a crime. https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/pen/part-1/639-...

[Mauricebranagh]

The US and most countries have very strict anti bribery laws

[gambiting]

For public sector, absolutely 1000%, very illegal.

However, please point me to a law that says it's illegal to give a gift from one private company to another for any kind of advantage.

[throw_m239339]

> However, please point me to a law that says it's illegal to give a gift from one private company to another for any kind of advantage.

Company B,Z or X didn't gift Netflix, they gifted a Netflix employee who then defrauded the company he worked for of its money, in exchange for these personal gifts and money. The "defrauding" part is his hierarchy not being aware of that arrangement.

It's called fraud and it's illegal. It's so illegal it is a federal crime.

[MaxBarraclough]

> It's called fraud

Is it really just counted as fraud in the US? Here in the UK, bribery is a different offence from fraud.

[hulitu]

Yes , but when bribery takes the form of lobbying those laws are useless.