Hoping to keep tabs on our ongoing corruption circus, but not interested in working too hard for it?
A self-styled citizens’ watchdog group is making it easy: The Citizens Reform Association of Cuyahoga County has issued a report titled “Who’s Who in the County Crisis.” It’s described as “a compilation of local government entities, agencies, departments, private companies and individuals who have been named or identified in relation to current federal, state or local investigations into possible corrupt or criminal practices within governmental entities in our community.”
In other words, it mostly gathers and recycles the stuff The Plain Dealer has been capably hammering on for three years, right down to the vague aspersions of people who haven’t actually been accused of wrongdoing or maybe grabbed a beer once with that old guy who was.
This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2011.
