Pedro Espade, who switched parties in the New York State Senate and switched control of the body back to the Republican before being tossed out in the primary, has now been charged with embezzling over $½ million from the charity that he ran.

And in the “if you are going to be corrupt, be sure that you are too big to prosecute” category, the winner is Dick Cheney and Halliburton, who are bribing Nigeria to get out from under charges of bribery.