How Government Really Works*

If you want to make money off of taxpayers you need to get the most pliable ciphers into decision-making positions so you can consult to them for your benefit.  One way:

1. Donate to candidates likely to be elected who can be easily manipulated (or at least won’t ask questions)
2. Sell them on a scheme that supposedly will benefit taxpayers but, regardless of whether it does or not, will be lucrative for you
3. Let the chips fall where they may but make sure you get your money up front
4. When the crash comes – deflect, deny, or distract as appropriate

As an example:

1. Individual lawyers for DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick & Cole, LLP donated $120,000 over three years to Union County freeholder candidates guaranteed election
2. DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick & Cole, LLP came up with a scheme to put up solar panels throughout the county at no cost to the entity that signed up and even promising savings on energy costs
3. The scheme was built on SREC values and yesterday imploded though money was made.

Though some of the details (mainly the DeCotiis campaign contributions) were still sketchy to me when Union County signed up, it seemed pretty obvious back then:

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We are now at step (4) and the only outstanding questions are who DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick & Cole, LLP will wind up blaming (assuming they even have to answer for this debacle) and how long it will be before they feel confident enough to introduce that plan involving wheels and hamsters.

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* In Union County, NJ, that is, which may be an extreme case.  Here we have one-party control where the party head (until June 4)  is also the head (until August 1) of the Authority that floated these bonds and who got to hand-pick the freeholder board.