Scholarship Fund, pay to play?

This is how "soft corruption" works.

Rep. Steve Buyer’s (R-IN) “scholarship fund” is five years old, has raised nearly a million dollars,  has paid for fun fundraising trips and golf outings at exotic locations for Buyer and his contributors, who also happen to be corporations with business before his committee. Oh, also, the fund hasn’t yet handed out a single scholarship.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20091018/NEWS05/910180398/Rep.+Buyer+raising+a+lot++giving+a+little