Culture of Corruption Update

No, I didn't get an AP News Alert on this one... (link) I wonder why...

State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in Pennsylvania politics, was indicted Tuesday on federal charges he used a nonprofit group for personal and political gain and defrauded the state out of $1 million.

Many of the 139 charges stem from Fumo's ties to a nonprofit agency in his South Philadelphia district.

Authorities had been investigating the Citizens' Alliance for Better Neighborhoods for more than four years. The group was started by Fumo aides in 1991 to serve the neighborhood where he grew up.

Prosecutors said he used state employees and the nonprofit group to fulfill his every whim — including cleaning his 33-room mansion, spying on his ex-wife, and fighting a dune project that might block his view of the ocean.

The charges included fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and tax offenses.

The Associated Press finally gets around to identifying this scumbag as a Democrat in paragraph 7 of the piece... Any takers on whether or not the AP would have identified him as a Republican in the first paragraph?