Print A federal jury on Friday convicted Michael Kail, Netflix’s former vice president of IT operations, of taking bribes from tech startups looking to do business with the streaming giant. Kail was found guilty on 28 out of 29 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, after a 2 ½-week trial at the San Francisco-based U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Friday. The Los Gatos-based 49-year-old was indicted in May 2018, accused of accepting over $500,000 in kickbacks between 2012 and 2014 in exchange for approving millions’ of dollars worth of contracts to tech companies that were seeking to do business with Netflix.