Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

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    How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country? Those politicians worked so hard to make certain forms of bribery legal. I get why they’re upset.

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      How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country?

      And in Al Capone’s home state, no less!

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        And Governor Rod “This Senate seat is on the market” Blagojevich.