Everybody who worked for a consultancy knows that you are having two masters to please, the customer and the employer.
Similar things happen in every privatised business serving public interests.
Perhaps the most frightening recent example of this was US judges who received kickbacks from private juvenile prisons to convict youngsters. Thankfully they were caught, and perhaps ironically they were sent to prison. (Nota bene: I don't think that prisons are a particularly good solution to most offenses, but this was has a certain poetic justice) Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to prisons Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks which totaled millions of dollars. He was also ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution. In the private prison industry the more time an inmate spends in a facility, the more of a profit is reaped from the state. Ciavearella was a figurehead in a conspiracy in the state of Pennsylvania which saw thousands of young men and women unjustly punished and penalized in the name of corporate profit. Read more at: http://www.examiner.com/article/pennsylvania-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-pri... -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt