IT-wise, using a home-brew email system to circumvent every security and compliance protocol is as bad as you can get.
Any of us plebs that did that would spend decades in a “federal pound-me-in-the-ass” prison. Miss Haversham will get a letter in her file.
Pretty blatant
It’s just saying that the lower level employees did not knowingly commit crimes. They were following orders. Now they are singing.