They are the two wings of the government spoils party.
Each seeks a share of government spending.
Worldcom was based on getting the Pentagon email contract, because Trent Lott was a friend of Bernie Ebbers, who had been a night club bouncer and party enforcer.
They had no idea how to run a business, and there were lots of people on the payroll who never came to work.
When it fell there was no investigation.
Political connections, kickbacks, government contracts, government secrets.
All of Congress is there to get pork for their district.
All of Congress sees their district as people who give them money.
Wall Street has been paying Congress $250,000,000 a year for deregulation.
They got the Glass-Segal Act of 1933 removed, it had kept the markets honest for 70 years.
Wall Street then made trillions on paper backed by nothing but promisses.
When the bubble burst, it was all legal, they had the law changed, and now the tax payer can clean up their mess.
One Nation, Pay to Play.