Chicago Confidential

My services to the city of Chicago throughout the 1970s included exuberant participation in corrupt practices for which I pleaded guilty in 1984 and spent 18 months in federal prison. My venality may have known no bounds — at the time of my conviction some said that I was the recipient of more illegal loans than any civic official in Chicago history — but I was a relatively low man on the totem pole: a deputy sheriff and deputy county treasurer. As a protégé of the Cook County treasurer, Ed Rosewell, however, I basically had the run of his office with the tens of millions of dollars that flowed through it.

All these years later enough of them have gone to their reward to make me a little less queasy about telling their stories. But evidently one thing hasn’t changed: Political office still carries a price tag in the great state of Illinois.

Gary Goehl is writing a memoir of his career in Chicago politics.

寻租腐败天下都有，但是这不是对其缄默的借口，人类要进步，一定要限制官的权力，5权分离是一个好的方式。