Renewed Concerns in PG County over How Far Federal Investigators Will Go
(Politics365) — From a flushed $100,000 check to $80,000 stuffed into a bra, a corruption scandal in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Prince George’s County, Maryland unfolds like a steamy soap opera with far-reaching implications beyond its anxious residents. Nervous politicians, too, are wondering where it all ends up. Two weeks following the arrest of outgoing County Executive Jack Johnson (D) and his wife, newly-minted Councilwoman-elect Leslie Johnson, the indelible image of the once powerful Johnsons escorted from their Mitchellville home in handcuffs leaves this predominantly African American jurisdiction in a state of ceaseless shock.
