My reporting drove both the public works scandal and the case of Hartford County High Sheriff Al Rioux, the latter of which took four long years to ripen (as I said, when you report the crimes before the feds even start investigating, that's when you're in the groove). I had the great honor of prompting the city's chief of police to sprint away on foot, rather than submit to questions about his officers' side business installing stolen water heaters and such in the homes of certain state senators. And then there was the time the Chief State's Attorney, one John M. Bailey (the namesake son of the late Democratic National Committee Chairman) called me at home on a Sunday morning to yell at me at length to stop writing every week about how he had not yet charged the sheriff.
Told him I certainly intended to as soon as the indictment dropped.
I mean it was good times!