Jimmy Dimora (Photo credit The Plain Dealer)
Cleveland’s newspaper, The Plain Dealer, is reporting that former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora has been convicted in federal court of racketeering and other charges. In its article headlined Jimmy Dimora convicted of racketeering, 32 other corruption-related charges, The Plain Dealer writer James McCarty gives readers the bare-bones outline about how an elected official sold county jobs and contracts in return for money, gifts, and prostitutes. The article also hints at the methods and patience of federal investigators and prosecutors in assembling a case against a corrupt public official. A 2008 article in The Plain Dealer headlined Cleveland, Cuyahoga corruption part of national trend adds to the understanding that public corruption can happen anywhere.
Of course, it could never happen here. Not in Idaho. Not in Kootenai County. Not in Coeur d’Alene.
It was an accounting degree that helped put away Al Capone. Numbers add up, as it were. And even the “Pretty People” have to file tax returns. And sometimes, they get their minions in trouble. So, for example, if the “pretty People” get their own, private legal fees paid for out of tax monies and then instruct their myrmidons NOT to issue a 1099, well, maybe we have the “C” word (and no, not the one Maher called Palin!), the one that puts the CONSPIRATORS in orange jump suits. Just sayin….
Comment by Pariah — March 10, 2012 @ 9:04 am
I don’t think that the current prosecuting attorney can spell wrakketering or coeuruption. It looks like the new one does.
Comment by Joe Six-Pack — March 10, 2012 @ 10:33 am