According to a breaking report, the 47-year old Anqing city official - who was turned in by his own wife last month - bribed somewhere around 500 women to have sex with him. Known only as "Wang Cheng" as of this moment, the "department head" is purported to have spent "more than five times his annual salary" pursuing 56 women per year, plus two full-time hos from "respectable families." The mechanics of his hustle aren't specified in much detail, but it appears that people bribing him as he moved up the government employee ladder found his appetite for sex easier to satisfy than, say, one for real estate. more ›

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