A. Benjamin Mannes recently contributed a feature article to BigTrial. Below is an excerpt from the article. Click here for the full article.
“When most Americans think of corruption, images of the Daley machine in Chicago, Tammany Hall in New York and New Orleans’ timeline from Huey Long to Ray Nagin come to mind.
Pennsylvania, however – more specifically Philadelphia, are topping national statistics on corruption.
In looking at the last decade alone, the City of Brotherly Love has seen both its congressman marred in ethics scandals, one imprisoned and the other “retired” following the revelation of a scandal in where his rival (a Judge) was bribed to bow out of the race against him.”