kickback

1. A percentage of a profit paid to someone who facilitated the profit, typically through illegal means, such as using a government position to ease restrictions on a business deal. The politician was receiving kickbacks for years, and now the full extent of his corruption has been revealed.

2. The recoil of a machine, especially a gun. Careful, that rifle's got a heck of a kickback.

See also:

turn a profit
kick (someone or something) down the ladder
kick someone down the ladder
do well out of (someone or something)
do well out of somebody/something
make a killing
jackal
take a fall
out of business
go out of business

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