Criminal Congressmen Website, June 13, 2000

This purpose of this website is to accumulate and disseminate data on political scandal in the United States. I have started it because I wanted to know how many Federal elected officials had been indicted, convicted, expelled, resigned, or otherwise got in significant trouble over the history of the United States but I could not find the information anywhere.

My hope is that people will email me with data once I have the site set up.

I should remember to let good sources know. The Almanac of American Politics people. John Gizzi from Human Events.

First, I need to get a reasonable list on my own. This site will be under initial construction for years, I expect, till I have time to do that. If anyone knows of a good starting list, please let me know.

I probably will want to categorize offenses as Money, Sex, Abuse of Power, and Violence. Outcomes will be Indictment, Conviction, Resignation, Scandal, Secrecy, and Vindication.

List of Scandalous Politicians
  1. Congressman Wayne Hays (D)
  2. Congressman Wilbur Mills(D)
  3. District of Columbia:
    1. Mayor (D)
  4. Georgia:
    1. Senator Talmadge(D)
  5. Illinois
    1. Congressman Daniel Crane(R)
    2. Governor Otto Kerner
  6. Louisiana
    1. Congressman Livingston(R)
  7. Maryland
    1. Spiro Agnew(R)
  8. Massachusetts
    1. Senator Edward Kennedy(D)
    2. Congressman Barney Frank (D)
    3. Congressman Gerry Studds (D)
    4. Mayor of Boston Curley (D)
  9. New York
    1. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (D)
  10. Rhode Island
    1. Governor Edward DiPrete (R), jailed in 1998 after pleading guilty to awarding contracts in exchange for campaign contributions.
    2. Chief Justice Thomas Fay, pled guilty forced from bench in 1993.
    3. Mayor of Providence Buddy Cianci (R), convicted in 1984 of assaulting a man who fooled with his wife.
  11. Texas:
    1. Congressman Jim Wright(D)
    2. Senator Lyndon Johnson(D)
URL: Php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/corruption/corruption.htm. Indiana University, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, in the Kelley School of Business , BU 456, 1309 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1701, (812)855-9219. Comments: Erasmuse@Indiana.edu.