Political Corruption in California

.W. Lee was the scourge of the state Legislature four decades ago, writing article after article in the now-defunct Sacramento Union about the Capitol's secretive and self-serving ways.

The Korean-born journalist told readers about legislators' adding bonuses to their already generous pensions, about their hidden perks, and about their cavalier expenditures of the taxpayers' money.

One devastating Lee story described how a prominent Assembly member located her travel agency adjacent to her district office so that travel agency employees could use the district office's taxpayer-paid telephone for calls around the globe to set up clients' itineraries.Dan Walters

Go get em Dan.