follow the money does not refer to going to work where you will be paid the best, it is a reference about corruption and if you follow the money you will find out the truth, meaning if some one says no I did not embezzle all of that cash, but they had an influx of money transferred into their account and no way to prove it came from another source, they are guilty, also pay offs someone gets all of the contracts from the government, and the person how approved their bid keeps getting richer and richer bigger house so on so forth that they could not have afforded on the pay that they receive, it is more in reference about investigation

The phrase "follow the money" became popular as a result of a movie, "All the President's Men." This was based on a book of the same name, by two reporters who uncovered the details of a U.S. political scandal known as "Watergate;" see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal . It means that if investigators--such as reporters or police--are trying to find who is really responsible for something, they should try to trace the flow of money--who is paying whom to do what. The idea is that "following the money" will lead the investigator up the hierarchy to the important people who really have the power and actually gave the orders, rather than finding more and more low-level people who merely carried out the orders.

Thank you Alan for the collection :D

Thank you for your comment Emma. I should have been more specific on my question. Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment though :)

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