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Incitatus

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3. Sometimes those contracting companies are owned by insiders the company.

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 06:22 PM

Dec 2013

They own it privately and give their companies contracts with the corporation they control. It's a way to suck profit out of the company and basically cheat stockholders. I don't know if that is the case with Amazon.

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