[Jonty30]

Unless they can prove a conspiracy, the most that can be done to them is to fire them.

I’m sure they were willing to keep their mouth shut for a few million.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Firing is done by the public service sector that employs them officially and directly. However, if they were corrupted (or otherwise complicit), they have become a "loose end". "Loose ends" need to be tied up. If not, later in life when they feel a pang of conscience and the need to "unburden themselves" (maybe in a tell-all book), they would become REAL inconvenient to those who are named.

Read a quote from the russian guy who was a Zero advisor this morning. Something to the effect: "It's easier to kill a million, then try to control a million...".

The old addage: "Dead men tell no tales..." still rings very true today...

[Don Corleone]

I’m sure they were willing to keep their mouth shut for a few million.

Good chance no cash involved. Just paying back a "Favor" owed to the the "Godmother" or "Godfather". Remember the Oswald killing?

[itsahoot]

I’m sure they were willing to keep their mouth shut for a few million.

I’m pretty sure they were willing to keep their mouth shut in order for them and their families to keep breathing.