I am making this statement out of a great deal of ignorance, that having been said.....
The official story I always heard is the man went toe to toe with organized criminals and made a positive impact on the community he served. He seems to have been the target of assassination attempts during his career which more or less proves he was causing problems for these professional criminals.
Criminals have no real rules, but the system does. Which they use to their advantage. A man would essentially have to be what the book would consider "corrupt" to actually put a hurt on such an illegal enterprise. So that claim always falls flat to me. And if he was corrupt in the general sense. He can join the club. They're almost all crooks. But the crook that overall makes life better for the citizens they represent is better than most of them.
I agree wholeheartedly with the above post on them using taxpayer time and resources to make a case against a dead man who (by all accounts) did a lot of good in his career. Could be far better spent, I don't know, catching active criminals?
The official story I always heard is the man went toe to toe with organized criminals and made a positive impact on the community he served. He seems to have been the target of assassination attempts during his career which more or less proves he was causing problems for these professional criminals.
Criminals have no real rules, but the system does. Which they use to their advantage. A man would essentially have to be what the book would consider "corrupt" to actually put a hurt on such an illegal enterprise. So that claim always falls flat to me. And if he was corrupt in the general sense. He can join the club. They're almost all crooks. But the crook that overall makes life better for the citizens they represent is better than most of them.
I agree wholeheartedly with the above post on them using taxpayer time and resources to make a case against a dead man who (by all accounts) did a lot of good in his career. Could be far better spent, I don't know, catching active criminals?

