Waste No Crime

People have gone to jail for stealing a loaf of bread. Under the three strikes law, I recall a man sent to prison for life for shoplifting sandwich meat and razor blades and then resisting his arrest. Some though are much luckier- they get away with graft for years. Perhaps, they even are caught with a refrigerator filled with $90,000 in cash or chair the committee writing US Tax Code in the United States House of Representatives while forgetting the income they derive from holdings in the Dominican Republic, or they blame a software error for underpaying Uncle Sam what was owed to the IRS by thousands and then end up running that agency and stridently enforcing that tax law over the rest of us. You can not yet call these fellows "criminals", "inmates", or "convicts", but "scoundrel" sure seems to fit with William Jefferson, Charles Rangel, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.