'Teflon' Ozawa portrait hung at Diet with other old-timers

This is almost funny. A politician who seems to all intent and purposes to model himself on former disgraced Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has 'paid' to have his own portrait painted and hung on the walls on the Lower House.

Apparently the offer of having your portrait hung in the Diet building is open to any political who notches up 25 years of (dis)service.

I could understand if they'd hung it in the members bar, on top of the dartboard.

You can read the typically 'dry' story from The Japan Times here:

Ozawa portrait hung at Diet with other old-timers | The Japan Times Online

Ichiro 'Teflon' Ozawa

Is there nothing that will stick to this dinosaur of a politician?

Last week I read that one of the prosecutors had messed up the evidence (surely Ozawa had arranged it?) so making it inadmissable in court.

This article from the Japan Times gives the latest where the court appointed lawyers are using a precedent set in prosecuting a gang boss to try and convict Ozawa of violating the political fund law. The comparison between gang boss and Ozawa seems very fitting.

Three years in jail sought for Ozawa | The Japan Times Online

After reading that I think you'll see why he deserves the 'teflon' moniker.