RIP, Jim Traficant, who passed away after sustaining injuries from a tractor accident last week.

There’s plenty to say about ole Jimbo, of course. One of the things that could be said, “You could get in trouble in a bar in Youngstown if you said something bad about Jim Traficant,” was said by Youngstown native Ed O’Neil, who was interviewed for a documentary called Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown. It was a kickstarter project with a badass trailer back in 2011. The filmmaker has released a few excerpts and extended interviews from the film, which doesn’t have a slated release date yet, on his Vimeo page.

This is one of them: Traficant, then a sheriff, refuses to foreclose on people’s homes.

Traficant fights foreclosures from Eric Murphy on Vimeo.


This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2014.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

One reply on ““You Could Get In Trouble in a Bar in Youngstown If You Said Something Bad About Jim Traficant””

  1. I’m guessing that he was aware of the fact that these people would be voting for him at some point.

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