Being in the senate taught him that senators take bribes for industry favors and everyone gets away with it. According to his controversy section on wikipedia,

Being in the senate taught him that senators take bribes for industry favors and everyone gets away with it. According to his controversy section on wikipedia, he received bribes from countrywide, fannie mae, freddie mac, AIG, while being chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Apparently he was also caught funneling a ton of AIG money through his wife in an offshore holding company. As Greenwald points out in his latest hit piece, Dodd also denounced the revolving door and said he would never be a lobbyist.