The company lost out
on lucrative government contracts over the years, largely abandoned the police force market, and spent a lot of resources trying to develop «smart gun» technology that it said could help prevent unsafe use of firearms.
Such arrangements are sometimes referred to as «pay - to - play» schemes, in which private entities receive favorable treatment, such
as lucrative government contracts, only if they first pay the public officials who make the decisions.
«The politically connected shouldn't be given the inside track to unfairly
obtain lucrative government contracts, and I will continue to fight this kind of corruption whenever and wherever I find it,» New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, D, said.
In episode 101, the series premiere, state representative Tommy Caffee is blackmailed for
lucrative government contracts by a local Irish mob boss when his long lost brother Michael returns to Providence after seven years on the run from the law.
Instead, AAC needed funds because it was awarded large and
potentially lucrative government contracts and needed to purchase materials to build specialty work stations for agencies such as the Department of Defense.
Certification as a woman business enterprise for firms that qualify can open doors to
lucrative government contracts for women business owners.
Critics are of the view that; the $ 100,000 dollar Ford vehicle gift presented to President Mahama in 2012, when he was Vice President, amounts to conflict of interest, and that he must be impeached since the contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, is also said to have been awarded
some lucrative government contracts.
When
a lucrative government contract is set to be awarded by honest government worker Jim Hawley (Tom Selleck), a low - life businessman (Barry Sullivan) attempts to get his hands on the contract by setting Hawley up for an elaborate blackmail scheme.