Just imagine this: Tim Cook travel expenses amount to an half a million dollar per year.
travel expenses only.
A professional hit man costs between 1/100th and 1/33th of that.
Tim has to simply give up on a pair of new shoes that year.
I also imagine the post-arrest interview of the $5000 hitman going like this:
"You're charged with Murder 1, which is a capital offense in this state. Are you ready to die for $5000?"
"Tim Cook made me do it."
In what wonder world are you living?
I am simply saying that a man with 2 billion dollars in his bank account can do whatever he wants.
It is also pretty naive to think that Tim Cook expenses can be questioned by an Apple anonymous accountant.
of course this is all hypothetical, men like Tim Cook would never hire an hitman paying cash personally face to face.
> "You're charged with Murder 1, which is a capital offense in this state. Are you ready to die for $5000?"
> "Tim Cook made me do it."
at best that could legally qualify as insanity
But even assuming it costed 200 thousand dollars, would not change that for a Tim Cook it's a day's pay
On the other hand, we know that governments do this sort of thing all the time.
they simply have better tools than hitmen, but, for example
https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/news/former-ceo-of-ama...
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/clearly-lasik-co-f...
> we know that governments do this sort of thing all the time.
they also have better tools than hiring hitmen
contract killing is a fraction of all the homicides
OP asked how the multi billionaire CEO of a trillion dollars company could kill someone
He could simply hire an hitman, it would cost him peanuts
If the victim is also using one of the products the company makes, they would also be in possession of all the information an hitman would need to complete his task, no investigation would be necessary
Some of the highest-profile hits nowadays happen in Russia, where the rise of wild-west capitalism has led to a boom in contract killings, with victims including politicians, editors and journalists, businessmen, even poets.
How much do you think it would cost to hire a Russian blackop/elite troop fleeing from his country?