The Young Traficant

As Jim Traficant attempts a comeback congressional bid — after serving more than seven years in prison on corruption charges — David Grann notes in his new book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, that Traficant’s history is actually “much more sordid and disturbing than many realize, in ways that extend well beyond his conviction in 2002.”

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