Geeze, even a West Point grad of some significant rank involved in major corruption in the link you provided.

If that can happen among what are as group among the best and finest examples of Americans there are, makes it easier to understand how so many nations are so totally corrupt, from top to bottom, while the average citizens of those same places turn out to be decent folks.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744