WASHINGTON — Jack Thugge, head of the United States Government Anti-Corruption Office (GACO), was indicted today on 19 counts of corruption, including bribery, extortion, wire fraud, honest services fraud, mail fraud, and eight counts of violating his own job description.
The indictment comes just six weeks after Thugge's deputy, Morton P. Fleeke, was himself charged with operating a pay-for-protection scheme from his GACO office, allegedly accepting envelopes of cash in exchange for reclassifying "criminal corruption" as "policy disagreement."
The 147-page indictment — longer than most novels anyone actually finishes — alleges Thugge used his position
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I have seen it. I have
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