"Yeah, someone, uh, mentioned that." His smile's gone. He hadn't started looking into it, but Scully seems likely to know the details - and she'll be a better judge of how coercive the whole thing is. "Where we're from, that'd be a problem for Vice."

Which is to say: his guess is "pretty damned coercive." One more reason, he's guessing, that Scully's been getting by on as little manna as she can manage.