I recalled this morning, reading about the sponsorship inquiry from a certain distance…because I am down here…that twice in my young and fawn-like life I have actually heard about the same sort of thing happening from the horses mouths except it was money arriving from provincial governments – “the program without a name”. But without the taint of the kickback, I suppose. Or perhaps there is a difference between a kickback and a long-term relationship. Dues served and all that. Intergenerational patronage kind of thing.
Why do I have this suspicion that these guys either just did it so badly or they just got caught?