Illinois ranks seventh for corruption

LeBuick · Dec 15, 2008

We talk about Chicago politics, but there are worse politicians...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/weekinreview/14marsh.html?ref=us

In a Department of Justice tally covering the last decade, Florida wins by its sheer number of guilty. The report, released last week, itemizes convictions in federal public corruption cases at local, state and federal levels in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and three United States territories.

Illinois ranks only seventh, with 502 convictions. At the squeaky-clean end of the scale, Nebraska barely managed an average of about one guilty official per year.

But the bigger the state, generally, the more officials it has, criminal or otherwise. So places like Florida, New York and Texas pile up big numbers. Let's adjust the data for population.
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