Of course I wouldn't know the one event. But I can speculate. And it might be this very story.
As I indicated in my initial post -- if a newspaper told the world that Joe was the poorest man in Congress, and if Dr. Jill saw that and went ballistic, and Dr.Jill read him the riot act, and if Dr. Jill demanded that he find a way to start making some real money -- that might have driven him to use his govt position to acquire money dishonestly.
Joe has told this basic story many times. It seems to be burned into his brain, and has been for decades. That newspaper telling the world how poor he was seems to have been a defining moment in his life. Maybe everything changed after that.
🙋 🤔the poorest man in Congress should be a meme!🤓🤓🤓 now THAT would be funny