yea we see where "change and hope" got us last time.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/72949-the-obamas-book-deals-spark-65-million-mystery.html
As in getting kickbacks as a shell company and go-between between foreign actors.
Book deals are a somewhat easy way of laundering money.
Maybe easier than art.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/04/01/Former-organized-crime-underboss-Salvatore-Sammy-the-Bull-Gravano/1805733640400/