Where did "Mister X" get his money?

So, Lawrence Jefferson the traitor in Heirs of Empire, did quite a lot of things that would have entailed spending large amounts of money. As a couple of examples, there was the money that he used to bribe the maker of the graviton bomb, the bribe money for the mat trans operator. And the grav bomb maker said (to us readers) that money had been no object. And what about the large amount of money it would take to build and staff the duplicate mat trans? And there are other things that would need to be paid for.

He was a former US senator, and then the Lt Governor of earth. I think that there may have been a mention that he had family money, but I find it hard to believe that that could have financed all of the many things that required untraceable funds to pay for those things.

He was also one of Anu's top degenerates - in fact, probably the most senior to escape detection. He'd have known where a _lot_ of bodies were buried, and how to profit from them. He very likely also had access to, probably direct control over, some portion of Anu's covert funding mechanisms. And finally, it is remarkably easy for people working at that level in any government to create 'black' budgets and sidetrack huge sums, provided said sums amount to fractions of a percent of the total budget they're overseeing. For an entire planet, a G$ is a rounding error.

Mycall4me wrote:So, Lawrence Jefferson the traitor in Heirs of Empire, did quite a lot of things that would have entailed spending large amounts of money. As a couple of examples, there was the money that he used to bribe the maker of the graviton bomb, the bribe money for the mat trans operator. And the grav bomb maker said (to us readers) that money had been no object. And what about the large amount of money it would take to build and staff the duplicate mat trans? And there are other things that would need to be paid for.

He was a former US senator, and then the Lt Governor of earth. I think that there may have been a mention that he had family money, but I find it hard to believe that that could have financed all of the many things that required untraceable funds to pay for those things.