Submitting to blackmail

The former Computer Associates, now known as CA, always had a somewhat shady reputation in the software business. And the trials and convictions of their executives supported this reputation. Now with the guilty plea of Tom Bennett, a former senior VP, we learn that the company paid to keep a conspirator from another company from talking with investigators. CA bought the guy's stock, paid off a loan and gave him a $3,700,000 consulting contract.