You should read about the paid consultants giving advice to agencies from the US Post Office to the Dept of Transportation and The Defense Dept. It is legal and once the advice is offered (good or bad) it is up to those in charge on whether to take it.
OH ...12 freddie mac ceos received 35 million in bonuses between 2009 and 2010. Taxpayers will end up paying 220 billion in bailouts by 2014. Rep Baccus introduced legislation to end their bonuses...
It won't go anywhere.
Did you see 60 minutes Sunday night? They mostly reported on Baccus and Nancy Pelosi.
What Baccus and Nancy Pelosi and I gather mostly Democrats did on insider stock trading should be absolutely criminal but it isn't. There has been legislation introduced against this several times but it never gets anywhere.