Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, announced last week that he would be relinquishing day to day control of the firm and that, separately, co-C.E.O. Jon Rubinstein, the firm’s fourth chief executive in a year, would be leaving the company after it was mutually decided that he was “not a cultural fit for.” Indeed, a lot of people are not a good fit for Bridgewater, where employees are required to criticize each other in order to achieve “radical transparency,” meetings are videotaped and archived for later viewing, and people often cry in the bathroom. Twenty percent of new hires leave within the first year. Dalio himself has said it can take up to 18 months to get used to the Bridgewater way of life. Now, thanks to a weekend report by The New York Times, we have yet more insight into the Westport, CT firm.

The story goes like this: five years ago, management committee member and co-C.E.O. Eileen Murray was investigated by then general counsel James Comey—yes, the same James Comey who now heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation—over an e-mail. Specifically, whether or not an e-mail had been typed by Murray herself or by her assistant. Because this is Bridgewater, the investigation was taped and distributed for viewing by everyone at the firm. Over the course of multiple interrogations, described by those who viewed them as “intense,” Murray maintained that she had typed the e-mail. Comey and several other top executives thought she was lying. Naturally, the series became knows as the “Eileen Lies” tapes. Remember, this is about the matter of whether or not Murray physically typed an e-mail. But wait, there’s more!

Videos of the interrogations were edited and later rolled out in a serialized fashion, a Bridgewater version of a reality TV show, said the former employees who saw them. The videos also served as a case study as part of “homework,” a firm practice in which employees review and analyze recorded meetings and internal debates.

It would have been strange enough if the whole affair started and ended with the co-C.E.O. of the world’s largest hedge fund being interrogated, on video, by a man who would later become the director of the F.BI., and those interrogations were then circulated as homework for employees of said firm. But it didn’t end there: