Supplicants of every stripe, from ambassadors to public servants seeking lifetime sinecures as federal judges and the like, stayed there. So did five people who were later granted presidential ...
by offering sinecures for their loyal but otherwise unemployable cronies, and by spinning off lobbying and speaking fees (the original font of their $100-million-plus personal fortune and the ...
A few of these arrangements appear to have been sinecures: While some Awans were rarely seen around the office, we now know they were engaged in extensive financial shenanigans away from the Capitol.
MSPs are talking tough - but sinecures of this kind are an integral part of a bloated public sector which has put the brakes on any prospect of growth. Don’t be surprised if the bonfire of the ...