So the author of this article expects sympathy/outrage? Is that what I'm supposed to feel?
I would love to pass a very simple law. Any person who gets a paycheck from a government entity has one chance to break the law. If they do, whether it's accecpting a donut or a bribe to grease a building permit, or like this guy buying a hooker, the person will spend the rest of his life in a Supermax prison, without the possibilty of parole. We will either get more honest officials, or smarter crooks.