Tag: Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act

When it's hard to convict a congressman who accepts a briefcase full of $100 bills from undercover FBI agents in a hotel lobby and then bundles them in tinfoil packets and stuffs $90,000 worth of them into his freezer, you know there's just something plain broken about the laws governing political corruption in this country. You know it. I know it. And Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter knows it.