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.”
Full story: The Young Traficant — Political Wire