Bay State Bombast – 1/14/11
House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he would consider asking his three predecessors — past and future convicted felons, Charlie Flaherty, Tom Finneran, and Sal DiMasi — to skip the Legislature’s 2013 swearing-in ceremony – or at the very least, sit in a stately holding cell.
Convicted former Mass. State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, failed to report thousands of dollars in donations that were intended to pay off her debt to the IRS. After finding out about it the government said, “Please, keep the money; just don’t tell us where you stuffed it.”
A federal judge sentenced Patrice “Ma” Tierney, wife of US Rep. John F. Tierney, to a month in prison and five months house arrest for aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns for her brother, a federal fugitive. A disappointed Congressman Tierney said, “Throughout my career it’s been my goal to bring people together. I just didn’t expect it would be my my wife and Dianne Wilkerson in a prison shower room.”
Prosecutors asked a federal judge to demand ousted Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner return the $1,000 he was convicted of receiving as a bribe. An outraged Turner responded, “I solicited that bribe fair and square!”
Five Mass Parole Board members and other Parole officials were forced to resign. That’s almost as many Probation Dept. officials who are expected to eventually be up for parole.
Tags: Chuck Turner, Dianne Wilkerson
Bay State Bombast | Ben Alper | 
January 14, 2011 8:13 pm | 
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