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5. This is no surprise: "Alabama leads the nation in political corruption"

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:31 PM

Jan 2018

Alabama leads the nation in political corruption, new study shows

Alabama tops the country in public corruption, according to a new study examining perceptions of wrongdoing across the country.

The report by Illinois State University’s Institute for Corruption Studies ranks Alabama as the most corrupt state in the union for 2017 when it comes to what researchers call “legal corruption” — conduct by public officials that is technically legal but unethical. The state comes in second, behind Kentucky, in “illegal corruption,” conduct that is out-and-out against the law.

http://yellowhammernews.com/featured/alabama-leads-nation-political-corruption-new-study-shows/

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