In 1998 (the last year for which I have figures), Federal Grand Juries indicted a few more than 76,000 persons. The population of the United States in that year was about 271,000,000 people. That works out to about one person indicted for each 3,500 people Thus, in a randomly selected group of 1,000 people, the expectation is that about person from the group will be indicted by a Federal grand Jury every three years....which includes five indictments, and five others who shortly will be or have been under investigation.
Let's look at a not randomly selected group of people. A search for Bush Rangers (who bundled at least $200,000 for the Bush campaign) and Pioneers (who bundled at least $100,000 for the campaign) for both the 2000 and 2004 elections returns a list of 940 people.
That's five times the national average for indictments, and eventually, possibly higher by a factor of ten.
Fucking wow...
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