Corruption charges follow Gov. Gibbons from DC

Former Congressman and now Governor of Nevada, Jim Gibbons is accused of accepting bribes in return for millions of dollars of government contracts steered to a friend, Warren Trepp. It's the usual story of allegations and denials but this little exchange illustrates the whole atmosphere of crony corruption inside the Beltway.

“Please don’t forget to bring the money you promised Jim and Dawn,” Mr. Trepp’s wife, Jale, wrote in the e-mail message to her husband on March 22, 2005, a few days before the Trepps left for a Caribbean cruise with Mr. Gibbons and his wife, Dawn, a former Nevada assemblywoman.

Minutes later, Mr. Trepp replied, according to The Journal: “Don’t you ever send this kind of message to me! Erase this message from your computer right now!”

Mr. Gibbons, who was in Congress at the time, did not disclose the trip, which included travel aboard Mr. Trepp’s leased private jet.

It's always the emails that trip them up. It amazes me how people who are supposed to be smart enough to govern our country and are able to come up with extraordinarly creative ways to cheat the taxpayers, still don't realize that you can't really delete anything from your computer short of incinerating it.