Take the following as truth: If Texaco executives had indulged their personal tastes for Van Gogh oil paintings at a multimillion-dollar cost to the stockholders, it would be self-evident that the stockholders had been plundered.
Then the following statement: "Texaco executives have been known in the past to support their personal tastes using stockholders' money." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: Inconclusive