Sell lawnmower for a living and you get caught up in some type of criminal enterprise, not likely to happen. but with public figures, people caught up in politically tinged scandals related to politicians, it's kind of a common thing. and that's nice. it's another thing that is sort of an add benefit about being in a public corruption scandal. but legal defense funds often also end up being super shady. or at least they have a history of themselves becoming magnets for scandal. for example, in the iran/contra scandal in the reagan administration, one of the people who ended up pleading guilty ...