What It Cost Me to Write Gold Bar Bob: The Downfall of the Most Corrupt U.S. Senator

I didn’t set out to write a personal piece.

For a long time, I avoided doing so. Not because the story wasn’t there, but because personal stories have a way of becoming misunderstood when power is involved. Facts can be checked. Motives get argued over. Experience gets distorted.

But distance has a way of clarifying things. And time has given me enough cl…