What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs I am
Briggs and I once did the Kessel run in less than 11 parsecs my record doesn't
stand because I was using those Nikes that have that little pogo stick in them
apparently I guess they're saying that was cheating how are you supposed to get
ahead if you don't do a little cheating did you know that it's not just athletes
at cheat sometimes our leaders and elected officials cheat when they do it
it's called corruption fraud conspiracy theft of government funds tax evasion
extortion racketeering insurance fraud to name a few can you say corruption the
people on this list can they herded a bunch during their trials we hear so
much about government corruption these days it almost sounds like it's
something new but trust me it's been going on since the Romans and before the
Romans it's not just the big-time politicians like the federal government
stuff like that sometimes it's local politicians like mayors you know the
dudes that give away the oversized key to the city the United States has a
bunch of cities that had mayors do time some did a little time and others got
the big ride like 20 years worth the big ride today we're looking at cities that
had mayors that went to prison and for how long I guess any time you're talking
about corruption you're gonna have to start with number 10 Camden New Jersey
Mayor Milton Milan he was the first Latino mayor of Camden New Jersey and he
was elected in 1997 before being convicted of corruption and as you can
imagine removed from office becoming the third Camden mayor in 20 years to be
found guilty of corruption to be honest this list can be done with only New
Jersey mayors most of them only did a year or two so they didn't make the cut
for this list but still there's a lot of them Camden is known as one of the worst
cities in the United States already and then the people get dudes like this just
making it worse for the 77,000 people that live there probably gonna be closer
to 70,000 and the upcoming census that's what's predicted he was convicted
because he laundered $65,000 in drug money staged a break-in with his former
business partner to collect insurance money illegally like staging a
burglaries and already you know known as illegal is there a legal staged break-in
for insurance money I don't know he used campaign money to pay for a vacation
Puerto Rico he received two vehicles and thousands of dollars of free work on his
own from contractors and authorized a shakedown of a $5,000 political
contribution from the city's public defender that's always great shaking
down attorneys the judge sentence him to the maximum allowed under federal
sentencing guidelines of seven years and three months in prison number nine
Cicero Illinois Betty Lauren Maltese is a former town
president of Cicero Illinois it's a city of about eighty four thousand and a
suburb of Chicago she is a member of the Republican Party and was born in Baton
Rouge Louisiana but raised in the Chicago area Wow
surprise surprise she's from two of the most corrupt places in the country and
she's a corrupt politician I guess nobody saw that one coming betty hit
national spotlight for her role in an insurance scam which robbed the town of
12 million dollars in funds back in the early 2000s betty was sentenced to eight
years in federal prison she did her time in California she was released on
February 26 2010 I've read a lot of things about Betty and most people feel
that she was pretty much a fall guy her husband was like a low-level mobster
and had mob ties and all that stuff I guess number 8 East Cleveland Ohio
Emanuel on a moiré is a Nigerian American citizen who is the former mayor
of East Cleveland Ohio city of about 17,000 people two suburb of Cleveland in
case the words East Cleveland didn't tip you off on Anwar was sentenced to nine
years in federal prison back in 2004 for public corruption and tax evasion on
Anwar is seen in a secret FBI video accepting seven $100 bills in an
envelope prosecutors said that it was bribe money from a one-time powerful
Cleveland consultant earning time for good behavior he was released to a
halfway house in January of 2012 now okay I'll give him this most the time
when I read things about corrupt politicians they always claim that they
were framed they were set up it's conspiracy from you know whatever it's
always something like that they never own it this is a quote from uh non war
he said to fox news upon his releases I wish I could go back but I'm not going
back to recount what happened we all make mistakes I made very bad choices
and that's all it takes so he owned up to it at least there's that
number seven progressive Texas mayor Omar Vella his father jose guadalupe
bella jr. and brother michael bella were arrested and charged with conspiracy
mail fraud violations of the Travel Act theft and bribery these guys had the
full boat the count indictment alleged that from June
2004 until somewhere around 2013 the Vella family members conspired to obtain
bribes and kickbacks from several service providers those allegedly
included a construction company and an architectural firm that was hired by the
city of Progresso and the Progresso independent school district to do some
work he was sentenced to ten years in prison
this town is an absolute mess in 2014 a school board trustee so this is like a
year after all that nonsense went down the trustee Felix Hernandez jr. was
arrested driving a tractor trailer loaded with about 1200 pounds of
marijuana now this according to the court records
who I want to call a real estate agent and move here there's so much drama it's
better than television this place is more dysfunctional than most my family
reunions number six new roads Louisiana former new roads Mayor Tommy Nelson
juniors 10-year prison stretch came from his conviction in an FBI sting operation
dubbed Operation blight official Nelson was found guilty in 2011 of accepting
more than twenty-two thousand in cash and other gifts for a municipal contract
to a fictitious garbage can cleaning business called cipher 5000 he wasn't
the only one caught up in this you know operation blight officials but the other
ones were either too small or there's other factors we won't get into that
okay maybe one that's so strange the sting also netted whitecastle mayor
maurice brown what i found strange about this one the mayor got 10 years for
various forms of corruption and the town named a street after him I'm not even
kidding here it is
number five New Orleans Louisiana reinigen was first elected as mayor in
March of 2002 he was re-elected in 2006 and at the time at least two-thirds of
the city of New Orleans were still displaced from Hurricane Katrina
he was term limited in left office on May 3rd 2010 he was also famous for
saying New Orleans is a chocolate city and it'll remain a chocolate city at a
news conference this wasn't like him out drinking with friends he said it like on
the news at single racist to me even at the time and these days I'm sure he'd be
run out of town maybe not I don't know they really liked him I remember him
during the Hurricane Katrina coverage he seemed very committed to the people of
New Orleans and he actually seemed like he cared I guess he did but he was also
very committed to having a large bank account a federal jury found Ray Nagin
guilty of bribery and fraud the former New Orleans Mayor who was 57 at the time
was accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and
kickbacks he was found guilty on 20 of those counts prosecutors also said Nagin
accepted perks such as free travel and he played a role in funneling money and
granite actually to Stone Age a company that was run by his sons the counts
covered large portions of Nagin's two terms as mayor so apparently was doing
this the whole time from 2002 to 2010 like I said he was there during Katrina
and a lot of the money came from you know federal aid to help rebuild New
Orleans it's just a shame because he was like a up-and-coming political star I
would say at the time Ray Nagin was convicted to 10 years in prison in 2014
for corruption he's still appealing and trying to get it overturned to this day
number 4 Jersey City New Jersey Thomas Whelan was born in Jersey City on
January 28 to 1922 has one of 13 children
say the man had roots in this town it's kind of obvious he did Whelan flew 63
missions in World War two as a pilot for the Army Air Force and that's what it
was called before it was the Army Air Force it wasn't I think the mid 1950s
that the Air Force was split into its own thing but it was part of the army
anyway thanks for your service Tom but this is where it gets all squirrely
Whelan was appointed mayor in 1963 when his predecessor was forced to resign
over questions about his citizenship will in then ran
for mayor in 1965 and again in 1969 winning both times in 1971 during his
second term Whelan was indicted by the US Attorney's Office for the District of
New Jersey as a member of the Hudson County eight and was convicted in
federal court for conspiracy and extortion in a multi-million dollar
kickback scheme connected to the City and County contracts Whelan served seven
years of his 15 year sentence he passed away in Florida in 2002 now the thing
about the Hudson County eight Whelan was one of eight city officials that were
blatantly corrupt from everything I've read it was common knowledge that you
had to go through these guys to get any contracts in the city and it was just
when it's common knowledge you know someone's gonna find out about
eventually and from everything I gathered I don't think they cared they
were accused and convicted of having demanded and accepted kickbacks
amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars to do business in Jersey City in
Hudson County for more than a decade number three Birmingham Alabama
Larry Kingford was an American politician who had a one-term tenure as
the mayor of the city of Birmingham Alabama
Kingford was a very well-liked mayor by most the residents in Birmingham the man
did a lot of good for the city and then there's the people didn't like him the
people that didn't like him talked about Langford 2009 conviction for taking two
hundred thirty-five thousand and bribes while serving on the Jefferson County
Commission he got caught sending a County sewer project to an investment
bank prosecutors said during the trial that Lankford accepted luxury suits
watches and cash he was sentenced to 15 years and released by a federal judge
after only serving eight he was in really bad health really bad health
Langford died on January 8th of 2019 at the age of 72
he suffered from several illnesses including which was the final blow COPD
I know a guy for Birmingham that lived there most of his life he just recently
moved to Oregon a couple years but two years three years ago anyway um I
mentioned this video to him he said yeah Langford got a lot of things done and he
said a lot of people do like him but this is what he said in my eyes he'll
always be a crook so I told him but yeah you're a personal injury attorney so
that doesn't mean much he hung up the phone on me none this guy forever he
hung up the phone on me we haven't talked since it's only been about three
days but still number two Allentown Pennsylvania ed Pulaski is a American
politician who served as the mayor of Allentown Pennsylvania he was elected in
2006 and stayed there until his resignation
in 2018 he resigned after he was convicted on 47 federal charges related
to corruption at City Hall now before that on April 17th 2015 Pawlowski
announced that he would run for the Senate in 2016 but suspended his
campaign the following July now he also in 2014
said he was running for the governor but he couldn't get any money so scrapped
that plan so that's two scrapped plans but on January 20th 2016 the Allentown
City Council unanimously voted no confidence in the mayor and called for
him to resign he didn't but he still had his plans for the Senate what made him
think running for the freakin Senate was a good idea the city didn't even want
him anymore but he still had plans run for the Senate so his trouble really
started in 2013 the FBI began listening to communications in the Allentown City
Hall on July 2nd 2015 the FBI raided the Allentown City Hall and Mayor Edie
Pulaski's home as part of it more than two-year investigation into Allen towns
contracting practices now that was in 2015 he still was going on with his
plans for the Senate and his fricking house got raided are you confused at
this point I am too I don't know what this dude was thinking or what his
advisors were thinking this was a weird story and I read about it for two hours
I'm still totally confused he was sentenced to 18 years 15 years in prison
in three years supervisions and number one Detroit Michigan Kwame Kilpatrick
was born June 8th 1970 Kilpatrick attended Detroit's Cass Technical High
School and graduated from Florida A&M University with a bachelor's degree in
political science in 1992 in 1999 he received his Juris Doctorate degree from
the Detroit College of Law it's the same sense but still
Kilpatrick's mother Carolyn was a career politician representing Detroit in
Michigan's House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996 and serving in the United
States House representatives for Michigan's 13 congressional district
from 96 to 2010 I tell you all that so you know this man knows right from wrong
in politics and in life Detroit's had a bad enough time without all the garbage
that was brought to this city by this guy in his people that garbage includes
denial of courtesy protection from the police because of late-night parties the
police wouldn't protect him anymore after hours because of what was going on
at the mayor is mansion or his house or whatever
preferential hiring of friends and family was accused that abuse of power
allegations 2010 indictment for tax evasion and mail fraud FBI corruption
investigations into Kilpatrick's family and friends SEC investigation into
pension fund influence-peddling a dead stripper named strawberry you name it
it's happened with these people the Federal Bureau of Investigation
investigated corruption within Detroit City Hall in particular how contracts
were awarded this all happened with undercover video wiretaps and informants
as a result Kilpatrick who's 49 currently will be serving 28 years in
prison for public corruption he asked President Obama for a pardon and didn't
get one and most recently he reached out to President Trump asking for a pardon
Kilpatrick's a lifelong Democrat and I read the letter that he sent president
Trump and it's it's a whole lot of butt-kissing it was pretty pathetic but
anyway he's in jail for the long haul and I'd be shocked if he gets out any
time before he's 70 all right so that'd my list the most corrupt mayor's in
America I could probably do three lists like that but those are the ones that
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