These, mind you, were only the tips no longer under investigation. Some 300 other reports remain sealed because they are, or might be, under investigation. Only one case, a till-tapping court clerk, can be tied to the hotline and the months of investigation by as many as 10 State Police investigators. That single case likely would have been uncovered in the course of a routine state audit, hotline or no. Two other cases, a public fund theft case and a misbehaving judge, might be linked to the hotline, given a large benefit of the doubt.
Some matters remain under investigation, true.
But many of those 300 overlap and it is almost certain that many amount to little more than dittos from the public for scandals already exposed or deals, though smelly, probably legal. Nearly two years after the governor announced his snitch line, no bombshell has exploded, nor does one seem likely. Tipsters suspected a lot, but provided little evidence. They proved how poisonous anonymous snitch lines can be, never mind the grave risk of basing them in a partisan political office. Maybe the hotline flopped because the media had already discovered the real scandals.