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In a System that Encourages Corruption, Prison-Bound Senator Carlos Uresti was Inevitable

The state’s part-time Legislature and weak ethics laws allow corruption to flourish. Uresti was just stupid and brazen enough to get caught.

by Christopher Hooks

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