you start out by telling the story about the late rep paul gilmore.explain. >> this is a fascinating area. the stories i like writing about most are things that are legal but clearly should not be. this is entirely legal. members of congress who have leadership pacs, a special political kitty that members of congress have, and how those lawmakers spend the money out of that fund. in these leadership pacs, a lawmaker can spend money however they want. you literally are allowed to pay your mortgage out of your leadership pac. what we found out is after members of congress retire, if they still have money in the leadership pacs, they carry them on as sort of a personal bank account as they move forward. we had a guy named paul gilmore, republican from ohio, who died in september of that year. when he died, there was about $30,000 left in his leadership pac. after mr. gilmore was not around, receipts showed that the pac kept spending money. no one ever explained exactly who was spending that money. none of the expenses were huge, but it was expenses you t