You can start with that in Iowa, where your outgoing 'rat gov just gifted AFSCME with a nice pay raise.
That sort of crap is just simply an outrage. If any pol did something like giving a big business supporter a payoff like that before bowing out, he'd be lawyering up and preparing to take the 5th in legislative hearings as soon as the new legislature took over. But democrat corruptocrats do that kind of s**t regularly for the unions that own them and Iowa voters accept it as business as usual.
The Philippines has a solution to that type of crap. No-one can be appointed, fired or given pay raises within 60 days prior to an election and up until the turnover of office to the winner. This stops some of the cronyism and the placing of judges and administrators loyal to the politician from being imbedded into the new administration.