>Their brothers are directors in other orgs, cousins run the contracting agencies they hire.
I always suspected this. I know someone who got into VP position (inflated position of course) with his so called "contacts". He is the most useless person I have seen.
It’s hard to get insight into. Hard to see anything at all from the outside, and on the inside you will suspect it. But the depth will be impossible to know unless you are accepted into those circles or know someone that is
Just curious, are you of italian extraction by any chance? Grew up around NJ?