In January 1987, Pennsylvania state treasurer Budd Dwyer held a press conference at his office on the day before he was to be sentenced and removed from office.
Two months earlier, a jury had convicted Dwyer of 11 felony counts stemming from a state contract that he had awarded to an accounting firm. Although he maintained his innocence, Dwyer had been found guilty of accepting a kickback from the owner of the business.
Dwyer refused to tell his closest advisors what he was going to say at the press conference, but they – as well as media people who attended – expected him to announce his resi...
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