[calamari4065]

You vastly overestimate how hard it is to have someone killed.

It doesn't take nation-state resources to kill a random civilian. It's a few tens of thousands of dollars. Even a few million is basically nothing to a corporation like this.

[coolThingsFirst]

It’s not the money that’s the issue, it’s the risk of getting caught with multiple life sentences. They got money to spare but it’s useless when you serve 50 behind bars.

[wetmore]

And that's why no murders are ever committed, because the possibility of jail time or capital punishment dissuades anyone who would consider committing murder.

[lupusreal]

It was irrational not to mention illegal for eBay to harass some obscure blogger with death threats, yet it happened.

[UtopiaPunk]

Admittedly, we're speculating in conspiracy-land right now, but... Yeah, going to jail for years is a pretty decent deterrent for committing murder. But a criminal investigation was officially opened into Boeing. Maybe some powerful individuals realized they could be looking at jail time anyway if certain information comes to court, so they ran a risk analysis and decided it was worth it.