Not corrupt, just incompetent and wants to be corrupt:
“It is just people jabbering. There is no evidence that anyone ever did anything,” Edward Genson said of conversations federal agents caught on tape that they say detail the governor trying to sell off a U.S. Senate seat for personal gain and otherwise profit from his public office.
As Genson pointed out, none of the conspiracies described in the federal agents’ recordings and used to back up the governor’s arrest last week actually occurred.
“This is two months of someone who obviously likes to talk a lot, but two months of nothing getting done,” he told members of an Illinois House impeachment panel.
Not sure it really helps with impeachment, but it certainly sets up a hysterical defense in the criminal trial. Hey, my guy was far too much of an incompetent dumbass to pull off pay for play. I suppose the last 6 years do provide some rather compelling arguments in favor of the theory.