Update:
"Embattled state senator arrested by FBI"
State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested earlier this morning by the FBI following an undercover operation that centered around a deal in Crosstown, where Roxbury meets the South End, according to two government officials. One government official said that, as part of the undercover operation, a bribe was offered from an FBI agent to the embattled state senator.
Wilkerson's campaign manager Boyce Slayman confirmed that Wilkerson was led away in handcuffs. The charges, which were unsealed this morning in a 32-page affidavit, contend that Wilkerson accepted $13,500 bribes in 2007 in exchange for, among other things, helping the nightclub Deja Vu get a liquor license. The arrest this morning came after an 18-month investigation which included undercover informants and audio and video surveillance of Wilkerson allegedly accepting payoffs in restaurants on Beacon Hill. --more--"
Now THAT is the kind of SPYING I like!
Sort of makes the article I was going to post boring, doesn't it?
State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, who is waging a write-in campaign to retain the seat she has held for 15 years, denied yesterday that she lied under oath at a 2005 court hearing, as alleged by a state office that investigates complaints against lawyers.
In a bare-bones response to a recent petition for discipline by the Office of the Bar Counsel, the Boston senator stood by her testimony that she was present at a city police station when two homicide detectives interviewed her nephew, Isaac Wilkerson, about the 1994 stabbing death of Hazel Mack.
I think her truthfulness and credibility are about NIL now, don't you?
The petition for discipline said that Wilkerson, who joined the bar in 1981 but has not practiced in a decade, gave "intentionally false, misleading, and deceptive testimony" when she said in Suffolk Superior Court that she was present at the interview of Isaac Wilkerson.
She also lied, the complaint said, when she testified that the detectives turned a tape recorder off and on during the interview. The Bar Counsel said she also lied to the office about both matters in a 2006 letter and in testimony on Feb. 29 this year. Detective Jack Parlon, former president of the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society, said Wilkerson has benefited from her status as a senator and that a less prominent person might have been charged with perjury.
She's got BIGGER PROBLEMS now!!!
He also disputed that the disciplinary case will boil down to the word of the two detectives against the word of Wilkerson and Branch. Wilkerson is so well-known that other police officers would have seen her enter the interrogation room but none are backing her account, he said.
"Everybody in the building would have known she was there," he said.
The Board of Bar Overseers, which looks into complaints against lawyers, is expected to appoint a hearing officer to examine the allegations and recommend discipline, if warranted. Sanctions issued by the board range from a private admonition to disbarment.
After the BRIBES, I think DISBARMENT for someone who SUCKS of the GOVERNMENT TEET is a GOOD THING!!!
As a result of her primary loss, Wilkerson is now waging a write-in campaign against Chang-Diaz, a former policy analyst from Jamaica Plain. When candidates' names are not printed on ballots, they can mount campaigns to persuade voters to write their names in.
I think that campaign is about to go poof, too!! If the voters of that district SEND HER BACK, then THEY DESERVE to be LOOTED!!!!
Yesterday, the Chang-Diaz campaign wrote to the office of Secretary of State William F. Galvin, asking him to investigate alleged violations of state campaign laws by Wilkerson supporters. The alleged abuses included encouraging voters to request absentee ballots to avoid long lines and cold weather.
Oh, it NEVER ENDS with this SLIMY SCUM BUCKET!!!
Wilkerson's campaign manager, Boyce Slayman, said an "aggressive effort" was mounted to register voters and to make sure those who could not make it to the polls on Election Day received absentee ballots. --more--"
