I believe what you are saying.
When big bucks are involved, all organizations start acting like a back-street alley whore on a Friday night.
At the end of the semester, when I would make out final grades, I noticed the absences listed on the computer rosters were far different from the ones I kept in my roll book - meaning someone who had access to supposedly secure attendance rosters and was “cooking the books” - students I hadn’t seen for weeks, if not months, were mysteriously counted as present almost every single day.
I was being overridden somewhere.