1. You're held at the border or find yourself in front of a judge for whatever reason, with the authorities questioning why or how it is you're apparently illegally where you are.
2. You have your lawyer contact the State Department or another lawyer who "knows how things work in D.C."
3. The wealthy person either indicates how much money has has available to make such a problem to away or, after State Department "does its due diligence," a potential solution comes down the line from some political officer and a satisfactory "contribution amount" is mutually found. In other words, "How much is it going to cost?"
4. Since the State Department doesn't have a credit card machine for large amounts, someone there will direct your lawyer to someone who can "help you."
5. In this case, a tidy donation to the Obama 2012 Re-election campaign in an amount that necessarily raised their eyebrows was arrived at--and paid.
6. A miracle happens! Some underling of ValJar gives a call to the right person at state and voilà! As if by magic, your troubles are o'er!
7. Now about that "due diligence" thingie, especially something like this, where there are "suspicious circumstances, there's certainly a ring of "that's going to cost you."
In a Reagan or Trump administration, if you're a purveyor of child body parts, you can forget it. In the Obama Administration, however, I'm sure the question was more along the lines of,"What's it really worth to you?"
It's nauseating to see how many people still don't understand how Chicago works.
This could have been a lesson on how to get a traffic ticket, or a building safety citation, fixed in Chicago. (Have done both.)
Where do all you naive Conservatives think Obama learned how? The ratf%&ker should have been doing 5 to 8 in Stateville. Instead, the Traitors smuggled him into the White House.