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        The Most Corrupt States

        As money pours into the Gulf, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers, from public embezzlement to private sector fraud, for all 50 states to rank which play dirty—and which have cleaned up their act.

        Updated Jul. 14, 2017 1:47PM ET / Published May. 09, 2010 2:18PM ET 

        #1, Tennessee

        #2, Virginia

        #3, Mississippi

        Rogelio V. Solis / AP Photo

        #4, Delaware

        #5, North Carolina

        #6, Florida

        #7, Nevada

        #8, Pennsylvania

        George Widman / AP Photo

        #9, South Carolina

        #10, Oklahoma

        AP Photo

        #11, Georgia

        #12, Alabama

        Butch Dill / AP Photo

        #13, Texas

        #14, Arkansas

        #15, Missouri

        #16, Hawaii

        #17, South Dakota

        #18, Wisconsin

        #19, Louisiana

        Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo

        #20, Arizona

        #21, New Jersey

        Louis Lanzano / AP Photo

        #22, Connecticut

        #23, Maryland

        #24, New York

        Mike Groll / AP Photo

        #25, Nebraska

        #26, North Dakota

        #27, Rhode Island

        #28, Kentucky

        #29, California

        #30, Michigan

        #31, West Virginia

        #32, Ohio

        #33, Utah

        #34, Minnesota

        #35, Oregon

        #36, District of Columbia

        AP Photo

        #37, Idaho

        #38, Washington

        #39, Vermont

        #40, Colorado

        #41, Maine

        #42, Alaska

        Mark Wilson / Getty Images

        #43, Iowa

        #44, Kansas

        Getty Images

        #45, New Mexico

        Laura Husar / AP Photo

        #46, Massachusetts

        Winslow Townson / AP Photo

        #47, Illinois

        Scott Olson / Getty Images

        #48, Wyoming

        #49, Indiana

        #50, Montana

        #51, New Hampshire

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