It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals or ports.
I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn’t.
I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.
If public servants are freely allowed to take up lucrative post retirement jobs with companies to whom they have awarded contracts while they were in government, it would open up an easy way for companies to bribe public servants by offering them lucrative post retirement jobs.
If you run for president and lose, you promote yourself into all sorts of more lucrative, possibly more influential and surely more fun media opportunities.
I’ve said this over the years publicly – this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
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