ENTHUSIASTIC CORRUPTION OF THE PUBLIC GOOD ??

From the movie: Gangs of New York
When Boss Tweed gets Bill to have those criminals hanged for crimes that they may or may not have committed, just for the sake of appearing to be tough on crime, the judge accuses one of the guys of “enthusiastic corruption of the public good.”

You stand here convicted of lewdness, jackrolling, sneak thievery, chloral hydrating, sodomy, strangulation and enthusiastic corruption of the public good …