Until he was suspended without pay after yesterday’s revelations, Kaloyeros oversaw $43 billion in tech investments, including private money leveraged by state funds. He also did quite well for himself, collecting more than $10.4 million in pay over the past seven years, supplementing his $549,947 salary in 2015 with $877,078 from the SUNY Research Foundation.
Meanwhile, regardless of what happens in the corruption cases, New York taxpayers are locked into what amounts to a business partnership with SpaceX and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk, who’s proposing a takeover of heavily indebted SolarCity.
If it doesn’t work out, Musk can always fall back on SpaceX, which has announced a partnership with NASA to launch an unmanned mission to Mars — where Musk has suggested he’d like to retire. And if not the Red Planet, there’s always Buffalo.
http://nypost.com/2016/09/22/cuomos-solarcity-disaster-could-become-a-monument-to-corruption/
Just another example of Corporatism
And don't think it is just the left. Here is a right wing favorite:
Pharmaceutical Company Supports Cannabis Prohibition To Protect Its Profits
The left loves its environmentalists and the right loves its prohibitionists. Corporations/Government take advantage of both.