By Paul Greenberg"Which office do I go to get my reputation back?" —Ray Donovan, secretary of labor in the Reagan administration, on being acquitted after he resigned from office and endured a nine-month trial on larceny and fraud charges."
"Then came the fall from grace. Senator Stevens was tried and convicted of what boiled down to filing an erroneous financial disclosure form. The verdict came in just a week before Election Day last November, and, doubtless because of it, he lost his seat in the Senate — though even then the vote was close."
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