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Sunday, August 15, 2004
Indiana Law - Corruption in Lake County "Far Too Rampant"
Today's Louisville Courier Journal has an AP story headlined "Lake County's rampant corruption is under scrutiny." Some quotes:
In 1962 then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy called Lake County one of the most corrupt in the nation. In 1992 the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in an opinion that county commissioners had a history of awarding contracts to friends for kickbacks.Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter, a Republican who grew up in the southern part of the county, said the Lake County cases the past two years have uncovered the most widespread corruption he knows of in the last 50 years. "The corruption is just far too rampant," he said. * * *
The question doesn't seem to be so much why corruption exists in Lake County but why it proliferates.
"The whole idea of public trust doesn't exist in northwest Indiana, not just in the politician but the people who elect them," said Maurice Eisenstadt, an associate professor of political science at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 15, 2004 01:18 PM
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