DID IT SET AN EXAMPLE?

After a lengthy trial in Illinois, the ex-governor finally went to prison on March 15, 2012 to serve out a 14 year term for doing something that wasn't right.  At the time of his conviction everyone was saying the this is going to set an example to other politicians in the state capital.  Did it? No. What it comes down to is that a Chicago State Representative was arrested on bribery charges. He is said to have accepted the sum of $7000.00 to write a letter to help a day care center to receive a state grant. Did he learn or did he not know about the ex-governor's arrest.