whether or not the governor did arrange for state funding is irrelevant. if you tell somebody give me a bribe and i'll hook you up and then you don't hook them up, you're still guilty of taking the bribe. you're just a liar as well as being a crook. something went down between them that made the ceo's company believe that the governor was going to hook them up with funding. the governor would like to sponsor these trials to research and entrepreneurship. the company flew that same scientist in the company's private plane to a weekend seminar on an island resort.