Philadelphia and Fraud are synonyms.
On every level. Fixed parking tickets, payoffs to Licensing & Inspection, payoffs to highway patrolmen, lifting entire voting machines on dollies out of Republican districts, summary judgements in court based on ethnicity (if you and the judge are both Italian and the plaintiff is not, hey, no problem), you name it.
I was even asked for a bribe by a woodsmith in a large shop in order to get my new staircase in a reasonable time. I told him I still needed to get groceries and my husband wouldn't get paid until the end of the month, so he relented.
The new chairman of a major city agency with whom I had been doing business for five years, pushing them to number one in their demographic, had his secretary call and ask me for some free work for a friend of his. I told her the yearly contract was bid to the penny and contained no padding, so I had to respectfully decline. Naturally, I didn't get another contract the following year.
Another guy used to sell flowers on the corner on Mondays. They were always a little wilted. Finally someone told me he stole them from the cemetery on Sunday evenings.