More Democrats Indicted In Illinois Indiana

I know a lot of jokes get thrown around about Chicago politics, but damn if they ain't deserved.

Here is yet another Democrat mayor, this time the mayor of East Chicago, George Pabey, who has been indicted by federal authorities for corruption and witness tampering.

The indictment charges Pabey and Camacho with conspiring to steal more than $5,000 from the city, by using city workers to renovate a home with materials purchased using city accounts at Menards and Home Depot, as well as city cement mixers and trucks.

Camacho also is charged with two counts of witness tampering, allegedly for telling workers to lie to FBI investigators about work at the house.

If it goes like the case of the recently convicted mayor of Baltimore in her corruption scandal, which sounds a lot like this case, it will take over a year before anything substantial happens, but in the meantime we get to sit back and marvel at how the Democrats seem to attract these sort of people.

Oh yeah, you do have to play name that party to figure out the guy was a Democrat. It's buried way down in the story and only alluded to obliquely. Of course, since this is Chicago it was probably assumed that the readers already knew he was a Democrat.

Pabey's election in a court-ordered "do-over" of the 2003 city Democratic primary ended the 32-year reign of Pastrick as mayor. Pabey, who had been police chief under Pastrick, styled himself as a reformer, while Pastrick was laid low by a string of indictments of his political allies.

Yeah, I know, one crook replacing another.

Thanks to Gregory in the comments who points out that East Chicago is actually in northwestern Indiana, not Illinois.