Imagine the outcry if the Hartford Courant revealed that a judge sitting on the Connecticut Supreme Court took a $500,000 tropical vacation on a luxury megayacht with a billionaire political donor and did not pay a cent for the trip.

Political wags would claim it dwarfed what John Rowland did in his theft of honest services for taking thousands of dollars in free repairs on his Bantam Lake cottage. It is easy to imagine how swift impeachment of that CT Supreme Court justice would be.