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Spoils system.
This is what they used to call it in 19th Century US politics. Every politician who got an office high enough that he was able to appoint people, filled every office he could with his friends and family, no matter whether any of them knew anything or could carry out the duties of the position, though it certainly made a lot of them rich from graft and bribery.
"To the victor go the spoils." The spoils system.