Taking your own property, putting a price on it and selling it on the open market = capitalism
Stealing your employers property, putting a price on it and selling it on the black market = theft and fraud
Elon selling blue check marks for $8 = capitalism
Twitter employees selling blue check marks on the black market for $15K ... well you get the point
Let that sink in. 😉
I suspect the employer (Twitter) was in on it. Media companies in particular have run illegal "pay to play" schemes for decades.
It partly explains how and why a company would run at a loss for years. There were enough off-the-books transactions such as these to keep executives flush with cash.
Give the Twitter agent 10% ($1,300 to $1,500) per bribe and pocket the the other 90%.
The FBI, SEC, and IRS are as effective as they were with Bernie Madoff's scam.
Governments run this same scam every day. Just recently a California Sheriff was convicted in civil court for payoffs related to concealed carrier permits, just like NYPD had also been caught doing.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/04/guilty-as-charged-california-sheriff-convicted-in-concealed-carry-corruption-case-n64016
The State maintains her actions were "minor indiscretions" and not felonies. Yes, they purport that denial of rights by law officials are "minor indiscretions".