As former President Donald Trump once said, bad things really do happen in Philadelphia — really bad things. The string of bad things continued this past week. Already in the midst of record-setting homicide rates, with a district attorney who cares more about criminals than innocent victims, Philadelphia now has the dubious distinction of adding a corrupt City Council to its list of shame. Earlier this week, powerful Philadelphia IBEW Local 98 union boss John Dougherty and City Councilman Bobby Henon were both found guilty of conspiracy and fraud.

The revelation that a Philadelphia union boss and a Democratic city councilman are corrupt is perhaps not so shocking, but the sinful greed and egregious acts involved here are. These scumbags were trying to “wet their beak” at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, preventing the hospital from using nonunion employees to install MRI machines.