What next: Soloflex endorsement? Abercrombie & Fitch model?

This is not how the public career of an entrepreneurial and political prodigy — he started his own I.R.A. at 14 and was elected to his local school board five years later — was supposed to end. Schock’s stock-in-trade has always been that he was good with numbers, whether managing a bookstore chain’s database when he was only in fifth grade, or doing the accounting for a local gravel pit in junior high. So his fuzziness in accounting for Super Bowl tickets, foreign travel, charter flights, cufflinks and cigars seems all the more puzzling.