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>>jbegle+(OP)
Hatchet man for Bezos. Now someone slightly more affable, maybe even an insider, will get the job but all the damage is done.

>>unethi+w2
Is this actually a strategy that is more common now? Trump is famous for this - he does outrageous things and then throws someone under the bus. That person leaves, they take all the reputational damage, Trump continues. Maybe Bezos and other billionaires are looking at Trump and thinking “Maybe I should go that far as well”?

>>Silver+E9
Ever watched literally any mob movie ever?

You're describing classic criminal enterprise org management.

It's such a typical pattern that RICO statutes have a specific mechanism ("vicarious liability") to still go after criminal leaders when they engage in this behavior.