Tags: Corruption

Free prostitutes considered a bribe, gifts under $100 not; individuals must warn police about extortion before paying cops a bribe if they want to ever get their money back

Received $98 million and is accused of giving contracts to companies with ties to school officials

Send your kids elsewhere. Really.

Pled poverty and cut programs

Was the House speaker pro tem, arrested by the county sheriff's office

Jim Greer

Leaves court deadlocked

Government trying to get that money back

As evidence custodian, he had a reliable supply

But was it good stuff?

Verdicts on other defendants coming

Peddling favors is hard to prove

Suspected of terminal sleaziness

A little insider knowledge

David Ayers spent 11 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit

Being crooked is one thing, but stealing from the government is another

Racketeering and conspiracy charges

Because bureaucrats can't solicit payoffs with all new phrases?