I thought cabinent members [i]were[/i] White House officials since they’re part of the Executive Branch and meet at the White House.

I tried to parse out the distinction but noodling through the official websites doesn’t help.

http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive/EOP.shtml

I haven’t gone through the record yet to see who has run up the most indictments in total but I’m willing to bet that more of them have happened under Republican administrations.

If we’re talking about guilty cabinet members, probably the most guilty was Warren Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert Fall, who was fined $100,000 and sentenced to a year in prison because of his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. You can read about it here:

http://www.mahablog.com/oldsite/id10.html

The question is, have their ever been indicted or convicted cabinet members of a Democratic president? Reagan and Harding were Republicans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9825296/

“Raymond J. Donovan, September 1984
The only sitting Cabinet member in recent history to be indicted while in office was Raymond J. Donovan, President Reagan’s labor secretary. In September 1984, Donovan was indicted along with several others, accused of grand larceny in his co-ownership of a construction firm. After going on unpaid leave in October, Donovan resigned in March 1985. In 1987, a jury acquitted Donovan and his co-defendants.”

And your point is . . .

As I’ve mentioned many times…Grant has borne an unfair rap all these years…

He was amost remarkable man…And just happened to be in the right place at the right time…With the “right stuff” to command modern armies…

I’ve always been a big fan of Grant’s…