I&#x27;ve wondered if the charity Claire Underwood works at in House of Cards was intended to be a commentary on this sort of thing.
Claire takes a huge salary from donations by corporations, then Frank spends it. They seem to be intimately involved with San-Corp at every turn but there are lots of questions raised that never get answered. For example it&#x27;s never explained why so much of the staff was rapidly cut, or why they pivoted to international work. I think they were even present in the whole Russo ordeal where the environmental initiative is replaced by natural gas after that bill fails. At the same time it is never directly implied that the CWI was an outright money laundering scheme.