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		| Originally posted by phredgreen there HAS to be a corporation commission or some other governing body to whom your friend can go to.
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 One would think this to be true.
It been my own professional experience that some areas of the government have such a culture of corruption that there is nobody to go to. Everybody watches eachother's back.
For example, if you need to block off a street in New York (to run a crane or move some huge thing from a building) you need to pay some people off. No bribe = no permit. Your permit application will be "considered" for a long long time. 
Who can you go to? The people in charge have their hands out, and their bosses cover them because they get a piece of the action. 
The Sopranos isn't all fiction, you know.