Just the tip of the iceburg in Lake County Indiana I am afraid to say.
I live here in NW Indiana, and there are a lot of politicians in prison. Unfortunately there are far more of them still running around free that need to be jailed (probably 1 in 10 get busted). Lake County is perfect for politicians as they are given cover by the huge amount of corruption across the border in the peoples republic of Illinois. Very Illinois style politics all around, you would think you never left Cook County. Most don't get any press for their misdeeds, hell, most won't even be investigated for a second by anyone, either the press or law enforcement.
The Chicago media rarely covers NW Indiana (this is that rare case), we have almost no media of our own (two poorly run papers and a very low power PBS station that has trouble staying on the air). Our congressman, the 19 term Democrat Pete Visclosky, who was one of the PMA Seven of the Murtha scandal back in 2008-9. Didn't stop him from being easily reelected, as a lame RINO (who has run and lost 6-7 times already) blocked a tea party candidate (a friend of my brother) in the primary, who that I know could have beat him finally in the general. He will easily win reelection this year too as that tea party candidate moved out of the area for a better job.
And this is Indiana, a mostly Republican state!!!!
And the corruption in Lake County includes some RINO's. One of the most corrupt and worst offenders is a town manager who claims to be Republican. The county Republicans keep him at arm's length, but do nothing to stop him. Its like Illinois in that aspect as well, as they do little to reign in the corruption of the Democrats.
