Great comment, but it is like that everywhere. In the South we call it "the good old boy network" - but it is the same thing. Buddy system, friends help friends, no bid awards for work given to friends, who then return the favor with donations or contacts. It is how the rich get richer and their friends live as if they were rich but are only getting by on loans/deals within their buddy system.
It's like that, but moreso.
Mike McQueary went to school with Jerry Sandusky's kids. He played pickup football with them in the vacant lot across from Joe Paterno's house. He was recruited by Sandusky and Paterno and played for Sandusky and Paterno. Then he served as a graduate assistant for Paterno when he saw Sandusky with the boy and reported him to Paterno, after telling his father who was an administrator for a medical clinic to which Joe and Sue Paterno gave over $1 million. Then McQueary became a coach for Paterno. Sandusky was recruited by Paterno and played for Paterno. Then he was a graduate assistant for Paterno. Then he coached for Paterno for over 30 years. He adopted the biological son of one of the siblings of the judge hearing his case, who was also a contributor to The Second Mile, whose fund-raiser was hosted by a major Penn State contributor, who was also a major contractor for Penn State, who was the Chairman of The Board for The Second Mile, which was founded by Sandusky, and for which the Penn State Nittany Lion served as the mascot . . . and to which Penn State sold land the same year as the unreported rape by one of its founders and active figureheads . . . to be developed under a grant signed by a governor who was on the Board of Penn State and was elected with donations by The Second Mill trustees during the time he was the state attorney general with an impaneled grand jury investigating Sandusky and The Second Mile, and had a fund-raiser hosted by The Second Mile chairman, who says he knew about the grand jury, which was questioning McQueary . . .