Inescapable consequences of letting zero-integrity optimization machines (psychopaths) run companies like this.
Of course they do this, what else are they supposed to do? It's their nature. Expecting otherwise is idiotic.
Getting outraged by this is like getting mad at the sun for rising. But if the legal system displays this absurd sham outrage, everyone will continue to be distracted from the actual problem, which is that society has no mechanism for intercepting these individuals and keeping them away from roles where they will obviously do things like this, because of course they will.
This is permitted constantly, we keep obtaining the same result constantly, all while the people who supposedly safeguard society gape and scratch their heads like orangutans. They are utterly taken aback that allowing the same transparently stupid situation doesn't magically start working, providing an object lesson in the meaning of stupidity itself.