this week in corruption
Mood: sick
Posted on 2008-12-09 09:58:00
Tags: politics
Words: 97

- In a shocking upset, Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) lost his reelection bid on Saturday in a very Democratic district. He had been indicted on corruption charges before but still managed to win his primary. The FBI famously found $90,000 of cash in his freezer. Hooray to the voters in LA-2 who finally saw the light!

- Just in: Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were just arrested by the FBI on corruption charges. They're alleging they "conspired to gain financial benefits in appointing President-elect Barack Obama's Senate replacement", which obviously is pretty embarrassing for Obama.

5 comments

Comment from medryn:
2008-12-09T10:19:07+00:00
He was probably just keeping his money in the freezer because it was giving better returns than stocks and bonds.

Comment from abstractseaweed:
2008-12-09T12:36:46+00:00
I'm glad to live in a country where corruption is punished. Greedy people can exist anywhere, but our system is reasonably good at preventing the widespread, entrenched corrpustion that some other places have.

Comment from abstractseaweed:
2008-12-09T12:38:39+00:00
corrpustion? yeah, it's a new word, kind of like corruption but misspelled.

Comment from abstractseaweed:
2008-12-09T12:41:20+00:00
or like a corrupted version of "corruption". I was too slow to come up with that earlier. I'll stop now.

Comment from gregstoll:
2008-12-09T15:10:54+00:00
I agree! I'm not sure how to build up a culture that punishes corruption, but it's nice that we have one and people do get sent to jail for this sort of thing...

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