“Rampant corruption”?
Gee ... update your rhetoric with a bit or proportionality of what rampant corruption actually is, please, when you compare today’s soiled chamber pots with yesterday’s common dinnerware.
I’d say when you have men effectively bribing legislators and it attracted attention nationally, that’s rampant. Did it happen in every instance ? No. But it was occurring enough times over several decades that the institution was becoming diminished as a result.