Why don't you ask why Old Fart never retired? He was practically on his death bed, suffered a stroke, mouth opened like a gold fish, had to be helped by persons to even walk, never contributed anything at all, and yet collected MP salary all the way till his death.
i think pinky committed a hideous crime. or maybe 2 devious hideous crimes.
crime 1: he kept the nation mum about the condition of lao lee. he went against "meritocracy" and allowing a living corpse to waste national resources and obstructing the flow.
crime 2. lao lee had specifically told him NOT TO FEED HIM MILK THROUGH THE NOSTRIL. he preferred pinky to unplug the life support and let him go. but pinky becos of his devious scheme of the impending GE preferred to keep him alive so he would orchestrate the over-rated SG50 celebration.
in actual fact, there should be a CRIME 3. that for exploiting the old man's demise to garner votes. he even plagariased the old man's "cards playing" speech.
....and the whole nation was fooled!