than 7,300 people in that job category in our country makes for a lot of opportunity for wide and varied criminal experience by public officials. for example, just during this past year, speakers of the house from four different states have been indicted on corruption charges. in new york, not only has the house speaker been indicted, but as of this week, so has the leader of the state senate. and that's on top of the hoff dozen lawmakers who have not just been arrested and indicted in recent years, they have been convicted. so, getting arrested, getting indicted, even getting convicted as a serving state lawmaker, is sort of getting to be a dog bites man story. is that even newsworthy anymore? sometimes, though, a particular criminal indictment rises above the general hubbub of your particular indictments of imprisonments of state lawmakers. for instance, there's senator leland yee of california, who was indicted on charges of not just corruption, but also racketeering and money