<p>YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — If the abandoned scruples and outrageous antics of U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. appear to be giving his hometown a monstrous black eye, this hardscrabble, old steel town seems braced to take its licks.</p>
<p>The Ohio Democrat, clinging to his congressional career and facing a prison term for bribery, tax evasion and racketeering, hardly could have picked a better place to call home.</p>