I guess that no one else finds it the slight bit curious that this guy has been under investigation for, what, 4 years and it's only stuff that he's done very recently that brought charges against him???

Seems very possible to me that the wheels of the gods were grinding slowly, but along came this, and they had to move quickly, lest he got a price he liked and appointed whoever bribed him.

Another thought: I understand that it's only recently that they had probable cause to plant a bug in his headquarters and tape his home phone. Those operations brought this forward, in an unmistakable way that gelled the overall investigation and made it ready for indictment.

Dave Oesterreich