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In the 235-year history of the U.S. Congress, only six members have been expelled from the House of Representatives.

It speaks to the extremely high bar for corruption in a famously corrupt body.

But among the most infamous and brazen of this sinister six is James Trafficant, a Democrat who

represented an Ohio district that included his hometown of Youngstown.

Known for his grandstanding and conoveresque buffont, revealed to be a toupee in a prison

mugshot, trafficant's 2001 arrest for bribery and racketeering surprised few.

It was consistent both with his character and his city, a city described by the wager

author David Grant as Crimtown USA for its cozy partnership with the

mafia. But the mobbed-up Midwest Metro of Youngstown is also home to a wholesome slice of Americana,

an ice cream parlor founded in 1945 by a woman who made frozen dairy desserts made with

hand-picked fruit. The founder, a married woman named Alice, originally sold the sweet treats

out of her husband's gas station, and it wasn't long before Cream was a bigger business than crude.

The parlor became its own business, and today has over 125 franchises in over a dozen states.

Traffigant died in 2014 after serving a nearly decade-long prison sentence, and his

bald corruption has been surpassed by another recently expelled member of Congress, disgraced New

York fraudster and cameo star George Santos.

But Alice's acclaimed eponymous ice cream parlor still stands, the original location by

some accounts the busiest parlor in America.

And perhaps Youngstown should be renamed from Crime Town to Creamtown.

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