It may not be sexy like Kwame’s sexting, or Larry’s bathroom stall rendezvous, or Foggo’s prostitutes in hot tubs, but for sheer scale of conspicuous muck, the state pension fund scandals bubbling up around the country are in a league of their own. And while it may be hard for you to get your head around as fundamentally dry a subject as state pension funds, the underlying alleged wrongdoing is same as it ever was: billions of dollars in state business steered to politically connected firms, kickbacks, and taxpayers left holding the bill.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=143606