McCallion's was possibly worse, where IIRC, she gave a particular lucrative city contract to her son's company or something along those lines. I agree with OffsideSpecialist about Ford though. I have a feeling he had good intentions a lot of the time, but didn't think a lot of things through, and just did thinks to benefit what needed to get done at the time. If he did it the proper way, though bureaucratic, he wouldn't be put in this position. But rules didn't apply to him and he probably let his ego get the best of him a lot of the time. What I did like about him though, is he was too stupid to hide his emotions or tippie-toe around questions, so you pretty much read through what he was up to most of the time, so from that front, despite all this happening, he was pretty transparent - good or bad.
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