Sounds like a sting. Isn’t that illegal? Entrapment?
I guess millionaires can get away with stuff.
Entrapment is a complete defense to a criminal charge, on the theory that "Government agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person's mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute." Jacobson v.
Doesn't sound like entrapment.