Orlando’s Corruption Crisis
It’s one thing for local government corruption to cause a stir within the community. It’s another thing for one lone city’s entire government apperatus to be the focal point of a conference between the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, due to corruption. Typically, once detected, corruption is taken care of before SCOTUS even knows anything about the operations of a municipality. In the 1980s, a masive corruption scandal in Chicago known as Operation Greylord resulted in more than 92 public officials being indicted. A total of 93 people were indicted, including 17 judges, 48 lawyers, 10 deputy sheriffs, eight policemen, eight court officials, and state representative James DeLeo.
What SCOTUS has before it now, and which they will discuss at their Opening Conference on September 30, 2024, is reminiscent of what happened in Operation Greylord.
So, how did this happen? Where was law enforcement? What impact does this have on the legal issues facing former president Donald J. Trump? And why Orlando?