The People Package: Corruption of a Concept

“The People Package accounts are a good source of revenue for TAO.” — Dragonryder

  Stratum XXIV: Early Wednesday mornings, Stoddard would hop into the TAOMPV and gun it out to Lexington Depot to pick up deliverables for the People Package. The circuitous route would take him to Comerville, Harmony Grove, Buffingtown, Jug Tavern, Big Springs, and finally back to Classic City by the end of the afternoon.
  The People Package was a mass marketing mechanism parties could utilise employing a linked network of media organs to deliver their message. A lucrative venture to be sure, for the TAO Office acted as middleman and stood to profit in doing their service.
  Until the BubbaCabal took over and everything went to pot.
  It was whispered that one Warren Letcher, notorious loan shark and crony of the heinous BubbaCabal, used the People Package account to launder money for his own uses, to the point the programme was so corrupt it crashed and burned.
  Stoddard was exasperated by the whole she-bang, and he was not alone. In the words of Mairobin, “I’m disgusted and bored with the ludicrous opinions and petty personal attacks within [TAO Office], within its walls, and under the table...” The ongoing graft was just icing on the cake.

A side note of levity:
  One afternoon Stoddard was sitting at a lunch counter in Normaltown, stewing about the misery at work.
  In walked Mr Letcher, and upon seeing Stoddard, made a public show of his largesse.
  “Lunch is on me, young man,” he announced quite vocally.
  “Cheap-ass cracker likes to put on a show,” Stoddard thought. “A free lunch from this bastard?! Hell, I’ll take it.”
  It wasn’t like Letcher wasn’t already eating other people’s hard-earned lunches.