used to work for Wally Hickel and company. He was governor at the time so we didnt spend a lot of time jawjacking but we did some. Winter was the tough time for tourism back in the day but unlike others he would retain as much staff as possible and do it by tightening down everything else.
He wrote a book,

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Owns-America-Walter-Hickel/dp/013958322X he met grifters all the time.

He was rich and I attended a few board meetings as technical architect. Got to know the board members, nice folks.

Met a few others, richer but unknowns. Almost all of them were worried about the regular folk, they did care. Met a few grifters along the way, some very well off, not worth the trouble to piss on them if they were on fire. Have even met one "super rich" he stopped when I was stranded at the side of the road and called one of his workers (he didn't carry cables natch) and stayed and chatted about Mexico, politics, narcos, and the plight of the sandanista war on the regular folk until his guys got there.