章節 87: Hot

Luna glanced up from her glass. "The Johnson family? Oh, I'm very familiar. There was a juicy segment on them recently."

"What kind of segment?"

Luna took a deliberate sip of her wine. "It was about dark lobbying."

'Ah, right...' I thought as the memory clicked into place.

"You mean the situation with Tom King?"

She nodded. "That's the one," she said, her grin widening. "Arnold Johnson managed to get away with it without so much as a scratch."

Tom King, as I recalled, was the President of the Florida Senate.

Around this time, it came to light that in 2001 and 2002, the Johnson family, instead of using open lobbying methods, was setting up secret meetings with Tom King.

These meetings happened in fancy, private places where they gave King and other important senators expensive gifts and offered them special deals. They were asked to say specific things that would work favorably for Johnsons' investments.