Paul Davis of Philadelphia Weekly just wrote a column abut Target: The Senator, a book that I wrote in 2017 about former state Senator Vince Fumo, AKA "The Vince of Darkness."
The book was written to tell the full cat-and-mouse story behind the Fumo case. This was after The Philadelphia Inquirer published daily over a nearly five month period a completely one-sided version of Fumo's federal trial on 137 counts of political corruption, coverage that amounted to a cartoon version of reality.
While the Inquirer's relentlessly pro-prosecution reporters subsisted on selective leaks from the feds, I was the only reporter who gained access to all 7,000 pages of the government's files in the case -- court transcripts, FBI interviews and grand jury transcripts.
Those files told a fascinating story about a colorful guy that the feds had been chasing since the 1970s, a politician considerably brighter and more able than the dim bulbs we now have running the city and state.
Although the feds had investigated Fumo for half a century, they were never able to catch him committing a crime such as bribery or kickbacks. Then, a brilliant prosecutor named Bob Zauzner figured out a way to turn failure into success by assembling an all-encompassing 137-count indictment that basically sought to criminalize politics as usual. With the full force of the Inquirer behind them -- and by bending a few of their own rules -- the feds were able to nail their man.
Here's a link to the PW story.