By The River

Here is the "presentment" by the statewide grand jury meeting in Harrisburg. It is 75 pages long. About 4/5 of it is about how successful the Democrat political organization was in the years leading up to retaking control of the House after the 2006 election. What you should remember is that the acts themselves aren't illegal. What could be illegal is how they were paid for. Was it taxpayer money, which would be illegal, or political contributions from individuals?

The last fifth of the document concerns the sort of political corruption people are more accustomed to in Pennsylvania: using taxpayer money to pay staffers to do purely personal work for an elected official, and hiring a "ghost employee" who gets paid for little or no real work. This part has the Monica Lewinsky/cigar moment of the grand jury's presentment.