Small fish compared to a sexually predating, developer beholding, fiscally incompetent Mayor. Kroger and the Secy State gave Mayor Creepy a pass, and failed the citizens in doing so.

"We must hold our public officials to a high standard," said Attorney General Kroger (straining to maintain a straight face).

It's the Martha Stewart syndrome. Send Martha to the slammer while the big boys on Wall Street get a pass.

Cash envelopes exchanging hands in city hall just before an investigation. A reporter hired for no apparent reason. Everyone insists it had nothing to do with the scandal, yet when Sam meets with WW to talk about the scandal, she's there with him.

Mojo, if Kroger kept a straight face while saying that quote above he must be on Botox.

Meanwhile, the message goes out once again: If you're powerful and connected you get away with things. Then they wonder why these small time crooks take a chance.

Henry Paulson gets a pass and Martha Stewart gets prison time. You tell me that makes sense.

It's not going to be hard to figure out what happened to America.

The people in charge of overseeing this mess let us down.

The only think they did faithfully was cash their paychecks.

Bill, your comment reminds me of a quote from Chief Red Cloud this evening: "They made many promises to us, more than I can remember, and they broke all of these but one: They promised to take our land and they took our land."

I think that we can say of the Paulson boys that "They made many promises to us, more than I can remember, and they broke all of these but one: They promised to take care of our money as if it was their own and they made our money their own."

I had high hopes for Mr. Kroger when he ran for office; but the Sam Adams investigation clearly shows he was mostly full of hot air and little improvement over "Hardly Matters".

Generous of you, Dave A., to call Mr Kroger's expensive charade an "investigation." Evidence, apparently, was not secured and no one was required to testify under oath. Just last week, WW's Beth Slovic offered us this suggestive item:

"Q: Why is Mayor Sam Adams shredding 'confidential documents'?

A: We thought this would get your attention. On April 7, Adams’ office spent $67.50 on document shredding. But Adams confesses ignorance on the topic. When shown the line item on his expense report, he suggested the documents could have been confidential personnel records. His spokesman, Roy Kaufmann, later confirmed that. 'It was required at the time, because the City’s old payroll system included confidential information such as employee Social Security numbers, and law required that those confidential documents be destroyed,' Kaufmann wrote in an email."

Mr Kroger does, however, maintain an active PR assault upon entirely legitimate skepticism among the citizenry.