Joe Ganim Case Summary

In 2003, the city of Bridgeport, CT was in for a big shock. The fourth largest city in the state of Connecticut just had its mayor, Joe Ganim, convicted of several crimes. He was considered a local hero, a man who helped raise the city out of poverty. Ganim decided to run for Mayor of Bridgeport in 1991, and ended up winning. According to Johnson, when Ganim was running in 1991, the city was in shambles; it had its financing being overseen by a state board, and the crime rate was on the rise (1991). Ganim decided to combat both of these by not raising taxes, like his opposition wanted to do, and by increasing the staff of the local police. At the end of the election race, Ganim was victorious. He ended up being reelected 4 more times, and was Mayor of Bridgeport until disaster struck in 2003. After being convicted of singles counts of racketeering, extortion, racketeering conspiracy, bribery, 2 counts of bribery conspiracy and false tax returns, and 8 counts of mail fraud, Ganim spent seven years in jail (Von Zielbauer, 2003). Two years after being released from prison, Ganim announced he was
When it comes public office, many people are stakeholders. It all depends on where and what the public office is. If the office is for mayor of a city, like in the case of Ganim, it’s all the people who live within that town’s boundaries. If the office in question is larger, like governor or president, it’s the whole of people that vote for that specific positon. They are a stakeholder because they will be the ones in charge of voting in a felon and then feeling the effects of voting in said felon. While the general voting public is a largest group of stakeholders, the second largest group would have to be all the people convicted of a felony. These people are considered a stakeholders because the ethical issue will directly affect them, as they are the target of the ethical