Ike to Prison

Twenty-eight whole months. Underwhelming:

• In sending former Chicago Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers to prison for 28 months, a federal judge on Thursday said a message needs be sent that the people deserve "honest elected officials."

  "Bribery and tax fraud are serious crimes," said U.S. District Judge Robert Dow, who told Carothers he let down the citizens of his West Side ward when he took bribes from a developer. "When they are committed by a high public official, they are even more serious."

And the only reason it wasn't more?

• Carothers is rare among crooked aldermen in one regard — he chose to cooperate with federal prosecutors, a move that cut his sentence in half. For months, he secretly recorded businessmen and public officials.

So where is everybody else in this stage drama? As pointed out in our comment sections, he flipped on the guy who bribed him - big deal. Where's all the rest of the graft and corruption and other crooked pols he recorded? Any reason they're all being granted time and opportunity to either continue scamming or hiding evidence of previous crimes?