yep, GM, IMHO the Traficant story is a gargantuan dark travesty.  A definitive farce.  Not a surprise or in any way shocking; not in this day.  Not in a time when one or a dozen in the position of reaming-for-revenues influence can do just about anything she/he wants to do, …even if it’s atrocious on a grand scale, billion dollar favors for favors, …just as long as one follows the conventions of status quo:  …Play ball with the propriety of the 200 dollar a plate aggregate &…blasto…the circlejerk constituency is your oyster.  Don’t play ball, …or do something petty ‘offense-wise’ or do it with style and against-the-grain autonomy; e.g., get a hum-vee in the oval office…while also being a popular democrat

in a republican stranglehold…or…trade hometown favors with old friends & innovative neighbors, …& your ass is on the block.  & if you reallly set the tone, press the façade until it begins to tilt for all the audience to see, …bitch…..…you’re GONE!

But this is just a theory; …more for sake of whimsy than warrant.