Headline in NYT : "44 Charged in New Jersey Corruption Sweep"
"A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in charges against 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen, and five rabbis, the authorities said."
Top that, Cedar Rapids.
"It [the political scandal] was replete with tales of the illegal sales of body parts; of furtive negotiations in diners, parking lots and boiler rooms; of nervous jokes about "patting down" a man who indeed turned out to be an informant; and again and again, of the passing of cash -- once in a box of Apple Jacks cereal stuffed with $97,000."
Diners!
"Three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen, and five rabbis walk into a bar..."