A Culture of Corruption?

This certainly doesn't look good, does it?

In office barely a month, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has ousted the state's independent monitor of juvenile detention programs and replaced her with a politically connected lawyer from his home county of Montgomery.

The new monitor is Marlana R. Valdez of Takoma Park, a former family law professor who was campaign manager for freshman Sen. Jamin B. Raskin, a Montgomery County Democrat who is a close ally of Gansler's....

...The office's current director, Claudia Wright, was appointed only last month after a national search conducted by outgoing Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr.

Wright, a national authority on juvenile justice issues who moved from Florida to take the monitor's job, has been demoted to one of three investigative positions in the office, officials said.

That's real classy. Take an independent job and take somebody who moved here from Florida to take a job and demote them after being here for three weeks and, in their stead, put a political ally.

Nope, the office of the AG isn't politicized at all, no siree...