Chutzpah award to Vince Fumo - ethics at the Pennsylvania Turnpike

You wouldn't read it in a work of fiction, it would be too far-fetched. Nothing however is too absurd in Pennsylvanian government, it seems.

Vincent Fumo the most notoriously corrupt politician in the state who shortly will be spending his days in US Court facing no less than 139 charges of public corruption is - he claims - sponsoring ethics reform at the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

We aren't making this up.

Here it is on his website:

http://www.fumo.com/

The guy deserves the Nobel Prize for chutzpah.

Of course it does raise the question for the Senator: "What is the ethics problem at the Turnpike that this is supposed to address?"

Ruth Arnao wife of Mitchell Rubin chairman of the Turnpike Commission is up on 45 corruption charges, and Rubin himself (not charged) is described as a beneficiary of Fumo's no-work contracts.

Here is the USDOJ outline of the indictments against Fumo and his gang:

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/sites/default/files/USDOJpr.pdf

TOLLROADSnews 2008-06-17