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Starting in February 1397, the Head Treasurer, Navis Kleick began investigating missing funds that were allocated either to road maintenance and repair via grants sent to the [[Stimpton|City of Stimpton]] and to widen Flourtess Road in [[Mordor County|Mordor]] and [[Flourtess County]]. He uncovered that numerous senior treasury officials, most notably Stimpton Comptroller Darius Marks, and Picketralian Senate Committee for the Trade of Picketralia chair Ethel Tulare, from Flourtess County, had been siphoning funds slowly to avoid detection for over 20 years. Tulare resigned immediately and Darius Marks was fired. This scandal was lampooned by the press as the "Drain the Bathtub" scandal, due to not only the method of money skimming, but also Picketralia's inability to "drain the bathtub," i.e., control the corruption problem. This culminated in the ''Treasurer's Report on'' ''Government Ethics'', more commonly known as ''The Kleick Report'', published in October of 1397, sparking mass outrage.

This all lead to King Mason I establishing the independent and nonpartisan Corruption Task Force, chaired by Prosecutor General Daris Davison, and made up of Head Treasurer Navis Kleick, Stimpton City Manager Erdman Noris, as well as a variety of other members. They began the planning for what became a series of 12 trials held between January 17, 1399 - December 27, 1399. Six would be held by the reestablished Committee on Ethics, and the other six would be held by the Corruption Task Force, acting as jurors in the High Court.

This all lead to King Mason I establishing the independent and nonpartisan Corruption Task Force, chaired by Prosecutor General Daris Davison, and made up of Head Treasurer Navis Kleick, Stimpton City Manager Erdman Noris, as well as a variety of other members. They began the planning for what became a series of 12 trials held between January 17, 1399 - December 27, 1399. Six would be held by the reestablished Committee on Ethics, and the other six would be held by the Corruption Task Force, acting as jurors in the High Court. On December 14, 1398, over two hundred individual charges were filed against 27 individuals, including Ray Veltin, Rahna Bash, Victor Jeuriv, Letter Carriers Guild President Nanis Irse, Darius Marks, Ethel Tulare, and 21 others.

== Trial ==