Fraud per capita

摘要

Salt lake city won the bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics with help, it now appears, from bribery. Judging from news accounts, free-spending Utahans evidently bought votes from foreign delegates with scholarships, job offers, no-risk business deals and even paid sexual services charged to official credit cards. Are you stunned? Not if you know the place. For decades this scenic town has been a leading center of financial shenanigans. Here's a distinction civic boosters won't talk up: Salt Lake City, with a mere 170,000 residents, is by far the country's smallest city where the scam-fighting U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has an office. It has been there since the early 1950s. Why?