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Graft in Illinois: Scandal Goes to Waste
Gertz, Elmer | September 22, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the scandal in which Orville E. Hodge, Auditor of Public Accounts in Illinois, has embezzled over a million dollars in state funds. He was forced out of office and ousted as a candidate for re-election and a delegate to national convention. Democratic party was dramatically slow in their response to this opportunity to move Republican party out of office in one of the key U.S. states. Herbert C. Paschen, democratic government for governor, reacted with full vigor Hodge and his two principal associates were indicted on over a hundred counts in state and federal courts, pleaded guilty and began serving their relatively mild sentences.

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SCANDALS; ILLINOIS -- Politics & government; EMBEZZLEMENT; POLITICAL corruption; MISAPPROPRIATION of funds; ILLINOIS; UNITED States
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