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