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ah...part of the RAT playbook...Illinois Democrat SOS Paul Powell (65-70) makes this guy look like a piker.

Although he never made more than $30,000 a year, upon his death, shoeboxes, briefcases and strongboxes with more than $800,000 in cash were found in his hotel suite residence at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield, Illinois.

In his hotel room he also had 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and two cases of creamed corn.

When settled in 1978 his estate was worth $4.6 million, of which $1 million was racetrack stock.

A federal investigation determined that Powell had acquired much of his wealth through illegal cash bribes, which he received for giving noncompetitive state contracts to political associates. The State of Illinois received a $222,999 settlement from his estate; in addition, several state contractors were imprisoned for their roles in the affair.