[NTHockey]

>>Both the FBI and IRS are now investigating the misuse of what’s known as General Improvement Funds a slush fund that allows incumbent state legislators to steer millions in taxpayer money to their favorite cronies in similar corrupting fashion to the U.S. Congress’s earmarks.<<

Delaware legislators have a similar fund for roads in their district. It’s an annual fund, but roads only get improved in election years. So where does the rest of the money go? See Arkansas.

[lentulusgracchus]

I was in college in Oklahoma in 1973 when the FBI was investigating county commissions for corruption. Every county had a road commissioner. The FBI arrested and got indictments against all but two .....most of them were convicted iirc. They also did similar investigations in neighboring States and made numbers of arrests.