A grand jury said in a report that the Pennsylvania Legislature operates under a system that is "irretrievably broken" and needs top-to-bottom change.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported that the report, filed on Monday in Dauphin County where the state capital, Harrisburg, is located, investigated the scandal known as Bonusgate. Common Pleas Judge Barry Feudale, who supervised the grand jury, said in his own filing that the jurors were "mad as hell" because many of the witnesses had basically said "no one's guilty because everybody does it."

The report said, "The current operational structure and ingrained procedures of the Pennsylvania House Democratic and Republican caucuses are irretrievably broken and in desperate need of systemic change."

Several state legislators have been charged or convicted of having staff members doing political work. On the Democratic side, $1.8 million in bonuses was given to legislative staffers.

It has been reported that the grand jury found the Democrats in the General Assembly could survive with 350 staff members, when they now have 911.

The partisan caucuses in the Legislature should not be given large sums of money to be spent at the discretion of their leaders, the report said. (With Inputs from Agencies)