Exit, Pursued by a Bear

A 'little' kickback? Well, that's all right, then.

Repeat after me: Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
The scariest thing about these people is not that they behaved this way, but that it was so normal in their environment that it seemed natural to be frank about it, to the point of cheerfully explaining their scheme on national TV. Man.

from cbc.ca:

Don Williams is a flag retailer in British Columbia and one of the many who took a financial beating when Ottawa began giving away flags for free. Now he's revealed that he did receive compensation in return for a fake invoice for flags he never supplied.

"We made about $5,000," Williams told CBC News. "We provided no flags ... just an invoice and that was it. We did nothing, zero." When asked directly is it was a phoney transaction, he said "Oh, yes."

"... Another flag retailer, Doreen Braverman, said last week that she too was paid for a phoney invoice. "It was a little kickback, yes," she said.

Braverman at one time was president of the federal Liberal party in B.C.