Re:Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Va...
by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:35AM
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> Americans are more expensive
Not so sure about that. I remember reading an interview, back in the '90s, with a lobbyist that was convicted and jailed for bribery. He said that US congress[wo]men were surprisingly cheap. He could get a billion-dollar contract awarded, for a couple of thousand bucks.
I think Johnny Walker Red[0] sold sub secrets (the worst kind), for just a couple of million bucks.
Not so sure about that. I remember reading an interview, back in the '90s, with a lobbyist that was convicted and jailed for bribery. He said that US congress[wo]men were surprisingly cheap. He could get a billion-dollar contract awarded, for a couple of thousand bucks.
I think Johnny Walker Red[0] sold sub secrets (the worst kind), for just a couple of million bucks.
Then, there was ABSCAM[1]. That was embarrassing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam