"a sudden abundance of jilted mistresses eager to use their ex–lovers’ status against them. A 2012 survey claims 95% of corrupt officials had mistresses and more than 60% kept concubines."
*Okay, on the face of it, that's not any kind of organized, clean-up-the-mess "anti-corruption drive." Those are sex leaks that ooze out onto the Chinese Internet and provoke moral panics. I use the term-of-art "centipede" for these kinds of political activity, because in a network society they're very common.
*They got so common that the behavior of public officials has changed, and Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Putin and Gaddafi all learned to just get barechested, bling-bling it up, and brazen it out.
