Actually, that's not a bad lesson for the kids to learn.
"Wilkerson hit with another allegation; With sentencing near, prosecutors cite no-show job" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff / November 20, 2010
With the help of two influential businessmen, one the developer of a major project in her district, former state senator Dianne Wilkerson received a no-show job at a local college that paid $15,000, federal prosecutors say.
Your tuition and tax dollars at work, folks!
The new allegation, which was immediately denied by Wilkerson’s lawyer, was presented yesterday in a sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors. The government recommended that Wilkerson be sentenced next month to four years in prison for taking $23,500 in bribes in the FBI sting that led to her arrest in 2008. She pleaded guilty in June to eight counts of attempted extortion.
Also see: Memory Hole: Wilkerson Wimps Out
The proposed sentence is two months longer than federal probation officials recommended but is warranted because of Wilkerson’s history of ethical lapses and illegal conduct, including a 1997 conviction for tax evasion, according to the office of US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.
“As outlined below, between Wilkerson’s conviction in 1997 and her plea in this case, Wilkerson repeatedly demonstrated that she believed that she was above the law,’’ said the 17-page memorandum.
Seems to be a requirement for the job.
Wilkerson’s lawyer, Max D. Stern of Boston, said she exercised “extraordinarily poor judgment’’ by taking the bribes, but never sought to enrich herself. He cited her years of public service and commitment to the poor and oppressed....
Did he say that with a straight face? If so, why did she stuff the money in her bra?
Through the efforts of the men, identified only as A.W. and J.K., “Wilkerson obtained a no-show job at a local college,’’ said the memorandum.
The men urged the college to give Wilkerson a $15,000 contract because she outspent what she earned each year by $60,000, according to prosecutors....
So let's get a college to kick back some loot.
Un-flipping-real!
At the time Arthur Winn, founder of WinnCompanies, helped Wilkerson, who had become the legislative champion of one of his major Boston development projects, the failed $800 million Columbus Center venture....
The allegation is not the first time Winn’s name has come up in the Wilkerson scandal. Winn acknowledged last year that he gave $10,000 to Wilkerson in 2004 to help her pay tax debts but said it had nothing to do with wanting assistance in securing public funds for Columbus Center. In September, Martin Raffol, a former top executive of the residential arm of WinnCompanies, pleaded guilty to illegally funneling $12,000 in campaign contributions to four Massachusetts congressmen in a federal case that was an offshoot of the Wilkerson corruption investigation.
See: Boston Globe Political Science Class
And you re-elected them, Massachusetts.
Wilkerson is to be sentenced the week of Dec. 6. Her codefendant, Boston city councilor Chuck Turner, is to be sentenced Jan. 25 on one count of attempted extortion and three counts of lying to FBI agents in connection with his conviction in October for taking a $1,000 bribe.
I'm sorry I did not have the time to cover the corrupt city councilman Chuck Turner's, dear readers.
A corrupt Boston city councilman or state officeholder. Imagine that.
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Now HOW ABOUT the LYING, MASS-MURDERING, WAR CRIMINALS and the TRILLIONS their LIES have COST?
When is THEIR TRIAL for LYING?
And the Fascist Bureau of Instigation is really a piece of work, huh?
Those liars charging someone with lying?
