Another Republican Congressman goes to jail

WASHINGTON — Ohio Rep. Bob Ney admitted improperly accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of trips, meals, sports tickets and casino chips while trying to win favors for a disgraced Washington lobbyist and a foreign aviation company run by a gambler known as "the Fat Man."

I do approve of the use of colorful names for seedy underworld types; it sounds like the kinda guy a Peter Lorre character would work for...