By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
When Michael Caggiano owned the Baltimore Bandits minor league hockey team in the mid-1990s, he received a letter from a woman who went to a game with her husband and two children. She loved it, the letter said, but she'd never go back.
"I think that's why it hasn't worked in the past — you were trying to put a minor league product with a suburban following in an urban setting," he said. "It's like trying to take a hummer and drive an IndyCar race."
Caggiano, who now serves as chief operating officer at an accounting firm in the District, said all he wanted to do was break even.
