Faug as much as I agree with you, you ignored a blatant credible example worth a mention..
Shame that story hasn't made it to the national news...
But it only cost Blue Horizons 650k for a short term lobbying effort to get 10B and put it in a bill that will pass...AND mucks up NASA...sheesh Its a fine example of the systematic problems political corruption causes....
OUCH!Kevin Spacey Must Pay ‘House Of Cards’ Producers $31 Million
"Americans Think ‘Corruption’ Is Everywhere. Is That Why We Vote for It? [...] Of all the apocalyptic prophecies on offer at Trump rallies, this was in a way the most familiar. An obsession with corruption is an American tradition; it dates back to the founding fathers, who declared independence in part on the conviction that the British monarchy was wielding its expanding financial and patronage power to subvert the independence of Parliament. In a 1994 essay, the historian John Murrin observed that after the revolution, “anxiety about corruption, instead of receding in the republic designed to destroy it, acquired unprecedented force in American public life, sometimes almost enough to overwhelm all other concerns.” P - You could argue that Americans have been well served by this anxiety. By international standards, we live in a cleanly run country, and always have. For all but two of the 23 years that Transparency International has published its index, the United States has appeared in the Top 20 least-evidently-corrupt countries. It’s true that we have had our share of spectacular episodes: the Whiskey Ring and Boss Tweed in the 19th century; Teapot Dome and Abscam in the 20th. In 2006, the Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff was convicted of felony corruption, bringing 20 people, including a congressman, down with him. In 2011, Rod Blagojevich, the Democratic former governor of Illinois, went to prison for trying to auction off Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. But the fact that these incidents remain so memorable is the point; they were seen as unacceptable aberrations, with consequences in the courts of law and public opinion. People went to prison, lost elections and, in Abramoff’s case, were played by Kevin Spacey in a biopic."
Nov 22, 2021,02:45pm EST|14,524 views
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* Kevin Spacey and two of his production companies were ordered to pay $31 million to producers of his hit Netflix series "House of Cards" following arbitration, Variety reported Monday, four years after Spacey was first suspended over sexual harassment allegations on set.
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* An arbitrator ruled that Spacey and two of his production companies must pay $29.5 million of damages, $1.2 million of attorneys’ fees and $235,000 of costs to MRC, the production house behind the political drama, after Spacey was found to be in breach of contract over the show’s sexual harassment policy.
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