30 Former Officials Became Corporate Monitors - NYTimes.com

Over the past few years, Bush and His Evil Minions^™ have aggressively expanded a program called, "deferred prosecutions" where the companies avoid a court case by paying a fine and agreeing to supervision.

Well, it now appears that in addition to helping along one goal of the Bush adminsitration, slaps on the wrist for corporate law breakers, they have gotten a twofer by creating lucrative private contracts for former political allys, in the form of "corporate monitors".

You may recall that John Ashcroft got a $52,000,000.00 contract to do this, for example.