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  Oh that's how that works. Politicians use the amount of legal immunity they get to engage in graft and hope that the hassle of revoking that and going after them is too much. Abusers do love to exploit and hide within systems.
context: Tired of scandals ending with “gate.” I used to play a video game called Shadowgate, and it wasn’t about a groundhog taking bribes. >
  
  The Watergate was the name of the hotel Nixon's goons broke into. Affixing the word "gate" as a suffix is understood to mean a scandal because languages change over time.
  This particular change happened because people are stupid as stumps and care more about the perception of a scandal than the reason it is scandalous. >
  
  Good. This is how FUNCTIONING governing body works… if part of it become rotten, it gets cut off and prosecuted according to laws. The fact that so many of the MEPs took bribes - bad… the fact that they are going to be prosecuted - good.