By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Jack A. Sherman, a former Marine Corps contractor, solicited $80,000 in bribes to steer business to a defense firm and stashed the cash at home in his freezer so his wife wouldn't find it. "I put it in the freezer, in aluminum foil," he said at his trial. "I put it under the ice cubes."