Today's Morning Shots is three flavors of corruption -
New Jersey corruption, wherein a Senator takes cash and gold bars for favors. This is stuff out of a Scorsese movie, and as someone with family hailing from the Northeast, let me tell you it used to happen a lot more than it does now. Or maybe everyone's just a little smarter about it.
Today's Morning Shots is three flavors of corruption -
New Jersey corruption, wherein a Senator takes cash and gold bars for favors. This is stuff out of a Scorsese movie, and as someone with family hailing from the Northeast, let me tell you it used to happen a lot more than it does now. Or maybe everyone's just a little smarter about it.
D.C. corruption. Pretty much of the Cassidy Hutchinson story her ratting on people who'd rip the Constitution to shreds for a corner office in the White House.
Wisconsin corruption. The Republican supermajority knows they're on their way and are desperate to cling to power by any means necessary. I'm sure they have a variety of motivations, the biggest is they'd have to get a real job if they lose some elections.
My mother was secretary to the Chairman of the Democratic party of the county. At that time, democrats had a lock on the area (steel industry/mines--USW and UMW and AFL-CIO). I heard all about how things actually worked.
If you wanted ANYTHING from the state (like a state job (which were really good jobs) or for a problem to disappear, you had to go through him. As a kid when I drove to school, I would park illegally and get a ticket. Ticket never got paid, it just poofed. After a while the cops stopped writing them once they figured it out. All kinds of that little shit and some really big shit too.
In the late 80s things finally caught up to him and he ended up having to actually flee the country to avoid arrest and prosecution. He dies before they could actually get him.
In a digital world doing things the analog way might mean it's slower for the authorities to catch on. 50 years ago it was all anyone did: throw all the illegal money in a big safe somewhere, launder it over time.
Good point. But isnтАЩt there a better hiding place than random pockets? Or maybe that supports your point; hiding the spoils is an admission of guilt I guess.
Also once you really get going you can't stop, too much liability, too many people who know what you're doing. Maybe you can take a $500 bribe and walk away.
But millions? That's hard to quit without someone getting mad.
I donтАЩt know anything about his family, but his wife seems тАШof a typeтАЩ. I always feel sympathy for the children; except in the case of the Trumps.
Former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams is a close enough relation that I remember as a teenager conversations amongst the family about him. It takes a lot to get these power seeking whores to resign and to get their fellow senators to seek that.
Today's Morning Shots is three flavors of corruption -
New Jersey corruption, wherein a Senator takes cash and gold bars for favors. This is stuff out of a Scorsese movie, and as someone with family hailing from the Northeast, let me tell you it used to happen a lot more than it does now. Or maybe everyone's just a little smarter about it.
D.C. corruption. Pretty much of the Cassidy Hutchinson story her ratting on people who'd rip the Constitution to shreds for a corner office in the White House.
Wisconsin corruption. The Republican supermajority knows they're on their way and are desperate to cling to power by any means necessary. I'm sure they have a variety of motivations, the biggest is they'd have to get a real job if they lose some elections.
I grew up in western PA in the 60s-70s.
My mother was secretary to the Chairman of the Democratic party of the county. At that time, democrats had a lock on the area (steel industry/mines--USW and UMW and AFL-CIO). I heard all about how things actually worked.
If you wanted ANYTHING from the state (like a state job (which were really good jobs) or for a problem to disappear, you had to go through him. As a kid when I drove to school, I would park illegally and get a ticket. Ticket never got paid, it just poofed. After a while the cops stopped writing them once they figured it out. All kinds of that little shit and some really big shit too.
In the late 80s things finally caught up to him and he ended up having to actually flee the country to avoid arrest and prosecution. He dies before they could actually get him.
I'd kill for a retirement job at one of the state liquor stores, but I have a feeling you have to know someone like your wife's boss to get one.
Would not surprise me. I doubt that things have actually changed that much.
Cash stuffed in pockets, and gold bars hidden, feels like a Bond villain plot. Do people really do that?
What I don't get is that he got away with it once. He had to know that they would be watching him. So why be so brazen to do what he did?
In a digital world doing things the analog way might mean it's slower for the authorities to catch on. 50 years ago it was all anyone did: throw all the illegal money in a big safe somewhere, launder it over time.
Good point. But isnтАЩt there a better hiding place than random pockets? Or maybe that supports your point; hiding the spoils is an admission of guilt I guess.
I think Menendez knew he was on the feds' radar for a long time and got excessively paranoid. These guys usually are.
Or excessively confident. My work place has cameras all over, yet people are constantly caught doing stupid stuff. Some to the point of being fired.
Yeah, if I'm paranoid about the feds busting me for bribery, I don't keep thousands of dollars in envelopes stashed in my closet.
What a strange way to live. Is it worth it? I suspect some of these corrupt types get a thrill from the game, separate from the spoils.
Also once you really get going you can't stop, too much liability, too many people who know what you're doing. Maybe you can take a $500 bribe and walk away.
But millions? That's hard to quit without someone getting mad.
Maybe thatтАЩs the situation for most criminal enterprise. I couldnтАЩt handle the stress!
I donтАЩt know anything about his family, but his wife seems тАШof a typeтАЩ. I always feel sympathy for the children; except in the case of the Trumps.
Oh, I donтАЩt have cable. I didnтАЩt realize sheтАЩs a public figure. Yikes.
I spent 40 years in Jersey and it used to be the norm.
Former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams is a close enough relation that I remember as a teenager conversations amongst the family about him. It takes a lot to get these power seeking whores to resign and to get their fellow senators to seek that.