Yes, I agree with you, but he's not really a politician any more, he's trying to be a celebrity now. You see in the US celebrities rarely get convicted of anything, and if they do, the the barely go to jail for hours most of the time. It's all for show, like on the last day of the trial, he brought his kids to court, that was the only time his kids came, right before the jury got to start talking about his fate. The guy is a career politician, he knows all the tricks, that's why he did celebrity apprentice, and his wife did I'm a celebrity get me out of here. When people see you on a somewhat regular basis and can connect you as a person, then there is less of a chance they will convice you. As for the $80 a picture, the guy is broke, his last trial cost him what like probably like $20 million by his lawyers and, and now he has got to go through another one. I believe that his wife acutally has a job, and I'm sure that their house is paid off, other wise I'm sure it would have been in forclosure already, this guys hasn't been working for almost 2 years, pretty soon he'll be so desperate he'll be taking pics with people, just for buying him lunch at mcdonalds or something.
As for his guilt, I don't think he is guilty, that's not to say I don't think he did anything wrong. He did alot of things wrong, but that is just how politics works in our state, you can't get the janitor to resupply the toilet paper in the washroom with out having to hire his wife as your new maid. Nothing happes around here with out at least a dozen back room deals first.