Chinese centipede agency

(((Okay, there are some vital elements missing here: *How* are
"authorities" "obtaining information" from "mistresses"? I have to doubt that the unofficial wives of Chinese zillionaires are lining up to out them – especially given the apparent fact that, if the existence of a mistress is known, the mandarin gets fired anyway.)))

(((So there has to be some kind of "mistress-detection bureau"
in effect. I wonder how much those guys earn and how much they pay their own mistresses.)))

(((Did you known that Madame Mao, Jiang Qing, the "White-Boned Demon,"
was the daughter of a mistress and a mistress herself? Interesting fact at the core of the Communist Party there – Mao would have been dismissed under this law.)))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/26/asia/AS-GEN-China-Corruption.php

Link: Mistresses aid in capturing corrupt government officials in southern China - International Herald Tribune.

BEIJING: Authorities are using information obtained from mistresses of government officials to crack down on corruption in southern China, state media reported Thursday.

About 80 percent of government officials convicted of corruption in Dongguan, Guangdong province, had mistresses who passed on incriminating information to police in anti-graft cases, the China Daily reported.

By Chinese law, government officials found to have mistresses, also known as "second wives," are automatically dismissed from their posts.

Communist Party leaders have repeatedly warned that corruption threatens the country's social and political stability. Last week, the government announced a five-year plan to combat graft.

Corruption within the party has not fallen despite several high-level arrests, including the party boss in Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in April.

Chen was toppled in a scandal linked to the misuse of hundreds of millions of dollars in city pension funds, some of which were illicitly invested in dubious real estate and other projects.

He was the highest-level party official to be ousted in a decade.

Most recently, 43 officials involved in the misuse of Sichuan earthquake relieve supplies were punished, 12 of whom were removed from office.