From projo.com:

Erik B. Wallin, Republican candidate for attorney general, on Tuesday announced a detailed proposal to fight public corruption at the state level.

If elected, Wallin said at a news conference, he would ask legislators to enact his Honest Operation of Political Entities (HOPE) Act that would give state prosecutors new tools, both criminally and civilly, to go after dishonest public officials. He said his proposed legislation would create “some of the toughest public corruption penalties in the nation” — a mandatory minimum prison sentence with a maximum penalty of up to 20 years and a $750,000 fine for those convicted of offering or accepting a bribe, “a penalty as severe as Colorado, one of the least corrupt states.”

The legislation would also create civil liability for public corruption profiteering that could be pursued independently of any criminal prosecution against a person or business. The HOPE Act would also eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecuting public-corruption offenses.

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