"Don't forget that "expanding an investigation" is often another way of saying, "let's study it some more rather than do anything about it.""___________
Try to see through the clouds now and then, but what you say can certainly be true at times.
It has been true in all my life because I can't recall any politician of note who ever suffered prison time of any consequence other than Congressman Traficant, the one Scotty beamed up.
Even the House Bank or Post Office passed with little notice. I once asked my brother, a teamster trucker, if it bothered him that Jimmy Hoffa stole millions from the Teamsters. His answer was "I don't care how much he steals as long as I get mine." There you have it.
I went to Pitt with Traficant. He played some decent football.
One funny son of a gun. Had some balls on him.