[paulz_]

> ultimately received over $500,000 and stock options from these outside companies.

$500,000 seems like probably a little less than one year salary for a Netflix VP. But then again people have been known to engage in fraud for much less.

[0800LUCAS]

500K is a year's salary for a senior SWE there. I imagine VPs are making well above that.

[cutemonster]

It was about 10 years ago though, maybe Netflix salaries were lower back then

[rednum]

Perhaps he gambled on the options being worth more. I don't know about all the companies mentioned, but Sumo IPO'd last year.

[mywittyname]

Well, that's for the one company he got caught accepting bribes for. The article lists at six other companies he was receiving kickbacks from. And the fact that he set up an LLC in his own name demonstrates just how comfortable he was with all of this.

All told, I wouldn't be surprised if he banked tens of millions over his career before getting caught.

[jeffbee]

The amount of RSUs that a VP at Netflix would have been awarded 2011-2015, the years this guy was there, would now be worth about 20 million dollars.