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Here's the report from Philadelphia Daily News (via The Jawa Report):

A SORDID TANGLE of corruption, cash and sex rocked the Statehouse yesterday in a political scandal that left one current and one former legislator and 10 current and former staff members facing criminal charges.

Among the accusations leveled by two state grand juries: Former top legislative staffer Mike Manzo got his lover, a twenty-something former rural beauty queen, a $29,000 job and $7,000 bonus mostly for doing her schoolwork.

State Attorney General Tom Corbett announced the charges against the 12, all Democrats, in a news conference in Harrisburg.

The dozen Democrats even resorted to a laughable attack on a Republican:

The charges could harm Democrats in legislative battles this fall, and some have accused Republican Corbett of a partisan focus in the investigation.

Yeah, right. Whenever a Democrat is guilty of blatant abuse of the law, it's "partisan". Only when a Republican does something like that is it not.

Others on the subject include Michelle Malkin, 186k per Second, Political Party Poop, Papa Mike's Blog.

Labels: political corruption, United States