The Clintons in particular are really adept at it......inventing faked-up do-good projects via the nefarious Clinton Foundation
While true, CF is but a small part of the problem, the payoff to the Clinton’s for going along with letting the swamp be the swamp. An awful lot of the real looting pattern in DC occurred under, not Clinton, but Bush, and the rakeoff was paid for through the growth in the budget for the War on Terror, which was a far bigger bonanza to DC than the War on Drugs.