She said clearing western forests of dead trees was increasingly being assigned to state prison inmate crews in Arizona because of a lack of federal funds.
Evidently, he is trying to euchre members of the House of Representatives into earmarking funds for the federal government to purchase a state prison in Thompson, Illinois that his home state can no longer afford to operate.
In May, he was handed an additional eight year prison term by a court in Lima after he was found guilty of embezzlement for handing over state funds during an election campaign.
An early target was a Republican, Essex County executive James Treffinger, who would be sentenced to 41 months in prison for covering up the awarding of contracts in return for campaign contributions and paying campaign workers with taxpayer funds.