For most of Obama’s eight years, some $50 billion was created monthly by the Fed in the name of “quantitative easing”, which could also translated as “money devaluation”–more money in circulation, the less what was already there is worth. Simple.
We have NO IDEA who got it, other than that it was the large Wall Street banks first. Ponder that.
Add to this huge pile of money in the present time the no doubt $100 billion or more from the several “Stimuluses” that will go to the superrich. Do you really think all the aid to other countries makes it there? Why would you? The people doling it out can be corrupted like anyone else, and this would include the GAO.
Add to THIS the piles of money various foreign governments would be eager to throw into the corruption of our system, the Chinese in particular, and you get a situation where the amount of money is so large that literally anyone who IS corruptible has been corrupted It is that simple.
They may want money, weird sex, guaranteed reelection or something else, but there are many psychopaths out there who can pay out BILLION dollar bribes and not blink. Ten billion? Sure. Just make sure you keep your end of the bargain. This is Zhang. He likes to decapitate people for fun. You would have an accident, though. A serious accident that might well involve your whole family, and I think we both know who would do the investigating.
This is the world we actually live in.