"One of the ensnared, bribe-taking congressman Michael "Ozzie" Myers--a Pennsylvania Democrat and former longshoreman with a propensity for profanity and violence--memorably told one of the sting participants, "I'm gonna tell you something real simple and short: Money talks in this business and bullshit walks. And it works the same way down in Washington." With that, he took an envelope full of $50,000 in hundred-dollar bills and earned himself three years in prison."