The Supreme Court is about to make it still easier for officials to profit personally and defraud the public

Listening to Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments about two prosecutions won by former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, it seems likely that the bad guys will go free. If and when that happens, consider it a lucky break for Andrew Cuomo’s former hatchet man Joe Percoco and a foursome caught rigging Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion program — and the umpteenth signal that America desperately needs better laws to police public corruption. Percoco took $35,000 from a developer for helping win state approval on a project. He made the call to the head of the right agency and pocketed the money during ...