Okay, this is getting really stupid and I don't like the direction it's going in.
The dumb mind-control angle was already pushing it, but now it seems pretty clear that the the game is just headed for express humiliation. The MC just loses his company with zero explanation, just so some black dude can blackmail him for ONE BILLION dollars and threaten his family.
I don't know why I was hoping for something better than such a lazy plot contrivance, but I was. I was down for some corruption and cheating, but I'm not on board for humiliating cuckoldry through stupidly contrived blackmail. If that's your jam, so be it, but I'm getting off the stupid train now while I can.