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| Bra-Stuffing Bribe Scandal Probe Grows |
| 2008-10-30 |
| The federal probe into an embattled Massachusetts state senator who was clandestinely videotaped stuffing alleged bribe money into her bra by the FBI has expanded to include three Boston City Council members, the state senate president and several state liquor board officials, ABC News has learned. On Tuesday, Democratic state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson -- an eight-term incumbent -- was arrested at her Roxbury home and charged with accepting $23,500 in bribes, including 10 $100 bills that she was videotaped secreting into her brassiere during a meeting at a tony Boston restaurant last June. Hours after her arrest, Boston City Hall was hit with a flurry of subpoenas and FBI agents assigned to the public corruption unit interviewed City Council President Maureen Feeney and Councilor Chuck Turner. Feeney's spokesman, Justin Holmes, denied she had done anything wrong. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Understated title of the week: "Bra Stuffing.. Grows" I remember high school girls doing that back then...(they used Kleenex tho') |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-10-30 14:45 |
| #9 Brings new meaning to pulling it out of their ass. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-10-30 11:23 |
| #8 Bust-ed! |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-10-30 10:40 |
| #7 It seems like "community organizer" has become synonymous with thieving scoundrel. It also seems like many of these jerks are immune from any criticism or much prosecution. If I had a history of bribes, thefts, and corruption such as Wilkerson, I would be labeled a habitual criminal and put in prison for life. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-10-30 10:32 |
| #6 Nah. She'll flip. Gratefully, willingly. Do some token time and probably get a job over at Harvard teaching at the Kennedy School of Government. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-30 10:31 |
| #5 It was not a bribe, I just had a "wardrobe malfunction?" That's where I store my money. Is she going to the Graybar Hotel with Sen. Stevens? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-10-30 10:28 |
| #4 She's just continuing the tradition of her predecessors in the district. The first went away for a coupla years for assault with a tire iron, the second for income tax evasion. And she's been around the block more then a few times herself... 1997 After a federal income tax investigation, Wilkerson pleaded guilty to failing to file federal income tax returns from 1991 to 1994. She was sentenced to six months in home detention, and received a $2,000 fine. I believe her excuse for this was she needed the money for security due to "death threats from Southie" 1998 Wilkerson was charged by the Office of Campaign and Political Finance for illegally using campaign funds for personal expenses. The office settled on $11,500 in penalties. She was charged with spending $500 on a skirt suit, which she said she bought to wear to campaign events. She served 30 days in a halfway house for violating the terms of a six-month home confinement sentence for failing to pay $50,000 in federal income taxes from the previous year's case. 2001 The State Ethics Commission fined Wilkerson $1,000 for failing to properly report that she was receiving more than $20,000 a year as a consultant by the then Boston Bank of Commerce, a bank that she lobbied for as state senator. 2001 Wilkerson was sued by her condominium association for $4,671 in back condo fees. A year earlier, she faced foreclosure on the condo after falling several months behind on her mortgage. She said she hadn't made payments because an envelope slipped behind her dresser. 2005 Former Attorney General Tom Reilly charged Wilkerson with having questionable donations and expenses, which involved more than $70,000. Earlier this year in August, she agreed to pay a $10,000 fine as part of a settlement with the attorney general's office. She had admitted to violating campaign finance laws. This was a continuation of the allegations she faced in 1998. 2008 In 2005, Wilkerson gave testimony in a case in which her nephew was convicted of manslaughter. Recently, she was accused of giving a false testimony in the case. The state Office of the Bar Counsel accused her of violating the rules of professional conduct. And this could get really good... Hit with howitzer-powered allegations of corruption and greed, state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson is at the center of a maze of malfeasance and an ever-widening public corruption investigation - and former feds agree she could be the rat who leads prosecutors to an even bigger cheese. With Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Senate President Therese Murray, City Council President Maureen Feeney and others touched by the tentacles of an 18-month probe into Wilkerson’s alleged abuse of power, it’s “a very distinct possibility” U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan may try and flip her to name alleged co-conspirators with a plea deal as bait. Stay tuned... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-30 09:48 |
| #3 Let's play Name That Party. Dianne Wilkerson Maureen Feeney Chuck Turner Gee, another community organizer. On Tuesday (2004), Turner and black activist Sadiki Kambon held a press conference to reveal photos purportedly showing US soldiers raping Iraqi women. The pictures were eventually identified as fakes, but only after four of the alleged rape shots appeared in a Boston Globe TURNER’S FAKE-rape-photo allegations are the latest in a growing list of inflammatory accusations and statements by the councilor. In April, the Boston Herald quoted Turner saying that Condoleezza Rice working for George W. Bush was "similar in my mind to a Jewish person working for Hitler in the 1930s." In February, Turner — irate that Flaherty had removed him as chairman of the council’s Education Committee — likened the South Boston resident to Louise Day Hicks, one of the most polarizing figures in the Boston busing crisis of the 1970s. And last September, during an ongoing debate about whether the council should focus on local concerns or grapple with national and global issues, Turner linked Flaherty’s use of Rule 19, which allows the council president to limit debate, to "institutional racism" |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-30 09:23 |
| #2 It was the eeevil whiteys made her do it. Just check the link; she'll tell you. If Diogenese went out with his lamp looking for an honest Mass pol, much less an honest black Mass poll, he'd be like Charlie on the MTA--the man who never returned. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-30 03:59 |
| #1 Justin Holmes, denied she had done anything wrong. Yeah right. I carry my money in my underwear and in my experience nobody says anything when I pull a $100 bill out of my shorts and pay for groceries or whatever with it. So Justin, just for the record and for use later on, do you think bribery is wrong? Is it OK to accept a bribe? Does it make sense that if one person gives someone $1000 it's just because it makes their wallet too fat to sit on comfortably? Where do most women carry their money? Do congress-critters always go places and do things without their posse along for the ride? Or just when they go someplace where they end up stuffing money into their underwear? Why would someone keep $100k in their freezer instead of the bank? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-10-30 02:53 |