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Part gets siphoned off by middlemen like Fannie Mae.
Recent studies corroborate widespread suspicions of PA corruption . In March, the PA's comptroller concluded that millions of PA dollars had been siphoned off for private use by officials.
And Mobutu's corruption has siphoned off resources.
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.
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.