Tom Bromwell used to order Crown Royal Manhattan Reserves ? on the rocks with a splash of cherry.

But on a November night in 2002, he could barely gulp down a couple of Coors Lights inside a sports bar on Belair Road. The once-powerful former state senator for Baltimore County had just learned from a business associate ? who wore a wire ? the FBI was coming after him.

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