Reply #20: The harder they try to hide corruption, the more it squishes thru their fingers...

[Blackhatjack]

When people stay in power long enough, they become cocky and arrogant about ever getting caught, which usually leads to their downfall. By the time they realize they are under investigation, it becomes virtually impossible to coordinate everyone's 'stories' and documentation tends to grow legs and end up in the darnedest places.

If you were an investigator of this corruption, one of the first signs you look for is 'timing' of alibis and inconsistency among the targets. Once you 'turn' one target, they become the 'guide' to uncovering the names and wrongdoing of all the rest. At the beginning it appears things are moving very slowly, but all of a sudden there is a line outside your door of targets wanting to 'cut a deal and cooperate to get a more lenient sentence.'

This pattern repeats itself over and over. Look at the Watergate scandal as an example. The early investigation and jousting took months, but once Dean and others 'turned' the jig was up, and the coverup defense collapsed with a President resigning office.

With any luck at all, we will see a repeat with these scoundrels....