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It has over 500 employees, some with the following background:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
3 have been arrested for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are or were defendants in lawsuits
84 were stopped for drunk driving in 1998

Can you guess which (company) organization this is? Give up? Here's a hint.

It's not a "Fortune 500" company. it's the 535 members of the United States Congress (year 2000).
That same omniscient, omnipotent group that turns out hundreds of new laws to regulate the rest of us should any turn to the dark side. Come to think of it, they're certainly eminently qualified to do this because they obviously know a lot about crime and corruption. Perhaps Lord Acton was correct when he exclaimed, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Of course the truly sad thing is that responsibility for them being there is ours. We elected them. Many excuses or arguments as to why this happened can be made, but could the truth be we were just too lazy to do our candidate homework before we voted? Fortunately we get a chance to correct this every two years for Representatives and six years for Senators.