One for the 'Only in America' file.
Joe Ganim spent seven years in prison for shaking down contractors for years while Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut's biggest city. What happened when he came out? They made him Mayor again. Now he is standing for Governor of Connecticut.
1991-2003 - Mayor of Bridgeport, elected five times.
2003 - Convicted on 16 federal counts - racketeering, extortion, racketeering conspiracy, bribery, two counts of bribery conspiracy, eight counts of mail fraud, two counts of filing a false tax return. Sentenced to nine years in prison and fined $475k in fines and restitution. The judge said he had lied to the jury. Resigned from office and lost his licence to practice law.
2010 - Released from jail on licence. He boasted in a radio interview that he had gamed the system by participating in a drug-treatment programme, which gave him a year's reduction, despite not being a drug-user.
2010-2015 - Worked at his family's law firm Ganim, Ganim & Ganim and started a consulting firm giving advice to white-collar convicts on how to survive prison.
2015 - Made a public apology and stood again for Mayor of Bridgeport. Somehow he got the support of not just the police union, but one of the FBI agents who had convicted him. He deposed the incumbent and was elected Mayor for a sixth time in a landslide. Gave the ex-FBI guy a job as a senior advisor.
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2018 - Candidate for Governor of Connecticut. Ran into another slight legal problem on Day 1 of the campaign on the way home from filing his campaign papers.
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2024 - President of America?