Now I want to tell you why the so called DEVs should take some responsibility in these matters, and why YES it should be investigated, and YES there should be persons on the team ALLOCATED for matters JUST LIKE THIS, because it REFLECTS BADLY on the PROJECT.
No Operations Manager worth his salt would simply let things like this LIE, or go without being addressed because specifically the success of the project is in HIS or HER CHARGE. A real savvy person would not simply turn a blind eye to this kind of shady behind the scenes type of thing. No.
Adults view things like this differently, with no need to try and evade things based on false abstractions of whose responsibility it really is.
Its a matter of having good boundaries and not allowing other " ENTITIES " such as 3rd rate pools represent your project with half assed and lying offerings. These are the facts of the matter at hand.....