Feds: City workers in heroin ring

Mayor Daley doesn't see much of a large scale problem with city workers selling heroin.Potential candidate Jesse Jackson Jr. does:

"The fraud and corruption happening right under the mayor's nose is apparently winding up in the veins of too many Chicagoans," Jackson said.

Asked if the arrests of three city employees on drug charges embarrassed him, Daley said bluntly, "No, I didn't sell it." The mayor rejected the notion that the arrests demonstrate a continuing culture of corruption at City Hall.

"It's an epidemic," he said of heroin dealing. "You have federal and state and local employees selling it. You have private employees selling it."

Maybe Ken Lay could use that defense in his Enron trial.Chicago Sun-Times