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The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.
Frankel's scam, involving prominent lawyers, businessmen, and church officials, has siphoned off more than $300 million.
And Mobutu's corruption has siphoned off resources.
Part gets siphoned off by middlemen like Fannie Mae.
Contemporary Chinese historians wax indignant that, under the Qing Dynasty, funds appropriated for the imperial navy were, in fact, siphoned off to make Yiheyuan an increasingly luxurious private park.