It doesn't even take that much. Beurocrat A: "Company X really botched the contract, like to the point of near criminal, definitely civil, negligince, we shou

It doesn't even take that much. Beurocrat A: "Company X really botched the contract, like to the point of near criminal, definitely civil, negligince, we should probably go after them in court so we don't set a precedent of allowing this sort of thing" Bureaucrat B: "Don't be unrealistic, company X donated amount Y to <campaign of person who's party currently heads up the executive branch of the level of government in question>, there's no way that would stick." And then bureaucrats A and B proceed to spend the rest of their day doing things that actually count toward whatever their performance metrics are.