Lol, right. I managed union pension (and other institutional $$) funds for 20 years until I sold my practice. We usually had the entire e-board on board, including custody bank, accountant, actuarial and of course 2-3 back office employees/high up members.

Steak, seafood, booze - all go a long way in making sure things work out. We did opposing research on competition - any legal problems, personal problems, employee problems/reviews.

It’s a science at these levels. I learned from a Democrat (who was a closet homosexual / didn’t know until year 8 or so) - my boss and biz partner for the first 10 years.

Fun story: The guy didn’t pay my bonus out in 2009 (typically paid Christmas Eve like clockwork), probably because I hated Obama. He went home that night and got drunk making pies lol and had an appendecitis attack. Goes to the ER and they gave him Fentanyl not knowing he was drunk and it killed him.

I bought out the biz from his estate. His wife brought in all their money to be managed and he had like 20 million stowed away in commodity trading accounts northern, IN. This was a huge violation, but he was dead so it didn’t matter. Story is he was running a kickback scheme w Indiana unions and Chicago mob.

I sold the biz 3 years later when in a meeting they wanted their juice for doing business with me.