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They were tax credits with requirements they did not meet. If they were planning on taking advantage of those credits, it seems like they would have put in the minimum effort to at least appear to meet them. Something a little stranger happened here. I think related to global politics, not just something with Trump or Scott Walker.

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I got the sense that they did try to put in that minimum but misjudged how high the bar would be. They sent in their "we hired enough people so give us the money" message, but then (unexpected, I suspect) scrutiny by some civil servants revealed that they hadn't hired enough.

Yeah, I guess what the article describes seems shockingly incompetent. That's what I'm struggling with. The feeling that if they were really trying to a do a fraud they would have gotten closer to succeeding. But what the article describes seems like what would be in a satirical movie. I mean, I know multinational corporations have their moments, but this seems so beyond just average incompetence.

I don’t know anything about the leadership but it makes me wonder if they’re used to a certain grift-effort level in China and they weren’t adjusting to the slightly higher grift-threshold in the US.

I don’t entirely disagree but I do think that’s explained by, they weren’t actually planning on having to actually meet any benchmarks, rather than just having a friend in the Governor’s mansion.

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