Monty - Thanks for the details. God, I hope this gets around to local units of government around the country. Give a sweetheart deal in exchange for kickbacks and your ass, not the banker's, goes to jail. My resume includes some time working for another Jefferson County, this one in Colorado where I witnessed a stunning amount of self-dealing and kickback cronyism. I suspect that outcomes like the one you have detailed would bring just a tad more honesty to local units of government. But there remains a huge nest of cockroaches to be swept out.

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"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild Benjamin BernankeFor-profit commercial banks are a menace and should