New book by Brad Bumsted profiles history of Pennsylvania corruption

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 The dome of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)

The dome of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)

From the conviction of former State Sen. Vince Fumo to Harrisburg’s Bonusgate scandal to a midnight legislative pay raise, Pennsylvania has seen plenty of corruption in the past decade.  Several longtime state house reporters are now beginning to collect these stories into books — the latest of which is called “Keystone Corruption: A Pennsylvania Insider’s View of a State Gone Wrong.”

Its author, Brad Bumsted of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, has been a Harrisburg statehouse reporter for nearly three decades. He’s covered all of the recent statehouse scandals.

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