Patrick Fitzgerald tells University of Washington audience public must fight corruption

The Seattle Times reports:

Fitzgerald said corruption in business or government can exist only if people who know about it do nothing. He said that during a sweeping corruption investigation into the Secretary of State's Office in Illinois — which ultimately resulted in nearly 70 indictments and the conviction of Ryan — workers told him over and over that the payoffs and bribery he was investigating "was just the way it is in Chicago."

"My response is, 'That's the way you're allowing it to be,' " he said. "We need people to stand up."

Here's another view on why Illinois corruption is unstoppable.Has Patrick Fitzgerald read this explosive Chicago Sun-Times story?