[peoplefromibiza]

> How exactly does he do it?

Just imagine this: Tim Cook travel expenses amount to an half a million dollar per year.

travel expenses only.

A professional hit man costs between 1/100th and 1/33th of that.

Tim has to simply give up on a pair of new shoes that year.

[jrockway]

Are you saying that the internal accounting controls at Apple are so lax that Tim Cook can pay contractors off the books out of his own travel expenses?

I also imagine the post-arrest interview of the $5000 hitman going like this:

"You're charged with Murder 1, which is a capital offense in this state. Are you ready to die for $5000?"

"Tim Cook made me do it."

[peoplefromibiza]

> his own travel expenses?

I am simply saying that a man with 2 billion dollars in his bank account can do whatever he wants.

It is also pretty naive to think that Tim Cook expenses can be questioned by an Apple anonymous accountant.

of course this is all hypothetical, men like Tim Cook would never hire an hitman paying cash personally face to face.

> "You're charged with Murder 1, which is a capital offense in this state. Are you ready to die for $5000?"

> "Tim Cook made me do it."

at best that could legally qualify as insanity

But even assuming it costed 200 thousand dollars, would not change that for a Tim Cook it's a day's pay

[ohgodplsno]

Yes, misuse and misappropriation of funds is such an uncommon event for fortune 500 companies. Especially the CEO, they have to justify every little expense!

In what wonder world are you living?

[Brusco_RF]

I am confused. Are you arguing that this is a thing that happens? If so, I'd like to see any shred of evidence whatsoever.

On the other hand, we know that governments do this sort of thing all the time.

[peoplefromibiza]

> I am confused. Are you arguing that this is a thing that happens?

they simply have better tools than hitmen, but, for example

https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/news/former-ceo-of-ama...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/clearly-lasik-co-f...

> we know that governments do this sort of thing all the time.

they also have better tools than hiring hitmen

contract killing is a fraction of all the homicides

OP asked how the multi billionaire CEO of a trillion dollars company could kill someone

He could simply hire an hitman, it would cost him peanuts

If the victim is also using one of the products the company makes, they would also be in possession of all the information an hitman would need to complete his task, no investigation would be necessary

[fastball]

Where do you find a hitman for $5k?

[peoplefromibiza]

Costs vary: In Australia, contract offers ranged from $500 to $100,000, with an average of $16,500. One undercover investigator, hired as a hit man more than 60 times in 20 years, lists his largest proposed payoff as $200,000 in jewels (and that was just the down payment) and his stingiest as “seven Atari computer games, three dollar bills, and $2.30 in nickels and dimes.”

Some of the highest-profile hits nowadays happen in Russia, where the rise of wild-west capitalism has led to a boom in contract killings, with victims including politicians, editors and journalists, businessmen, even poets.

How much do you think it would cost to hire a Russian blackop/elite troop fleeing from his country?