In the world of business if a group was making deals that benefited their competition AND they were being paid to 'give speeches' to 'the competition' for a million bucks a pop... it would be noticed.
In Washington the crooks are so use to each others corruptions that no one notices... or they actively look away so they don't notice.
It's not possible to get 100% bad deals for our country over the last few decades and NOT having bribes of some kind behind it.
The Mafia have 5 family’s D.C. has to the honest people are always kept in the back row.