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cutthemdown
11-19-2008, 04:14 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_us/state_senator_indicted


BOSTON – A Massachusetts state senator, photographed by the FBI allegedly stuffing bribe money under her sweater, has been indicted on eight counts of attempted extortion.

Prosecutors filed a criminal complaint in October alleging Sen. Dianne Wilkerson accepted cash payments between June 2007 and October 2008. The formal grand jury indictment was handed down Tuesday.

The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of the more than $23,500 in payments allegedly made to the Boston Democrat by undercover agents and a cooperating witness during the 18-month investigation.

If convicted, Wilkerson faces up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine on each of the eight charges.

Wilkerson, who is free on a $50,000 unsecured bond, has said there is "more to this story."

A call to her lawyer was not immediately returned Tuesday.

The indictment prompted Senate President Therese Murray to renew her call for Wilkerson to resign from the seat immediately. An ethics panel reviewing the case could recommend that senators vote to expel her.

Wilkerson lost her re-election bid in the September primary to Sonia Chang-Diaz.



AHH Boston politics.
barryr
11-19-2008, 06:00 AM
She's a democrat, so she has a good chance to get away with it and most of the media won't bother with this story.
atomicbloke
11-19-2008, 06:20 AM
She's a democrat, so she has a good chance to get away with it and most of the media won't bother with this story.

Dude, thats because its not the democrats that beat on their chests calling themselves the party of morals and family values.
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
11-19-2008, 07:41 AM
Dude, thats because its not the democrats that beat on their chests calling themselves the party of morals and family values.

Ha!

Hard to believe you have to explain things like these to mental midgets like barry and the OP.

In any case, it's amusing to watch them continue to attack and grasp at straws while their party circles the drain. :D
cutthemdown
11-19-2008, 11:56 AM
Dude, thats because its not the democrats that beat on their chests calling themselves the party of morals and family values.

What do they call themselves? The party of no values and no morals?
TDmvp
11-19-2008, 12:35 PM
What do they call themselves? The party of no values and no morals?

the party for the people looking for a hand out i think is their official title ...
Bronco Yoda
11-19-2008, 12:38 PM
...they are the DELUSIONAL PARTY.... just like the repugs are the PARTY OF HYPOCRISY.
TDmvp
11-19-2008, 12:40 PM
...they are the DELUSIONAL PARTY.... just like the repugs are the PARTY OF HYPOCRISY.

that's not to far fetched Yoda ... +1 ...
Smiling Assassin27
11-19-2008, 12:44 PM
i can call myself Satan, it doesn't make the fact that I rob a bank and murder a teller any better. why can't people just cop to the fact that this woman, who happens to be a Democrat (are you listening Spider?), disgraced herself, her seat, and screwed over the peope of Massachusetts? who gives a crap what her party describes itself as? apologists for this type of person suck, LABF. take your excuses and alibis elsewhere.
Bronco Yoda
11-19-2008, 01:37 PM
i can call myself Satan, it doesn't make the fact that I rob a bank and murder a teller any better. why can't people just cop to the fact that this woman, who happens to be a Democrat (are you listening Spider?), disgraced herself, her seat, and screwed over the peope of Massachusetts? who gives a crap what her party describes itself as? apologists for this type of person suck, LABF. take your excuses and alibis elsewhere.

She should go to jail. A sign made up of her transgressions placed on her front lawn. She should lose all pensions & or benifits (if applicable).

But what the hell do I know, I'm just an Independent free thinking dork!
Smiling Assassin27
11-19-2008, 01:47 PM
But what the hell do I know, I'm just an Independent free thinking dork!

Now stop that! You're liable to hurt yourself doing all that critical thinking...Plus, you're only confusing the sheeple.
Beantown Bronco
11-19-2008, 01:52 PM
She's a democrat, so she has a good chance to get away with it and most of the media won't bother with this story.

Not even close. It's been on the news here pretty much every day for the past 3 weeks. She most certainly will receive real punishment for this one.
Spider
11-19-2008, 04:28 PM
i can call myself Satan, it doesn't make the fact that I rob a bank and murder a teller any better. why can't people just cop to the fact that this woman, who happens to be a Democrat (are you listening Spider?), disgraced herself, her seat, and screwed over the peope of Massachusetts? who gives a crap what her party describes itself as? apologists for this type of person suck, LABF. take your excuses and alibis elsewhere.

Speaking of screwed over http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=26393 .......... Naw you meant the other kind of screwed over ....... you are not a catholic priest are you ?
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
11-19-2008, 04:50 PM
i can call myself Satan, it doesn't make the fact that I rob a bank and murder a teller any better. why can't people just cop to the fact that this woman, who happens to be a Democrat (are you listening Spider?), disgraced herself, her seat, and screwed over the peope of Massachusetts? who gives a crap what her party describes itself as? apologists for this type of person suck, LABF. take your excuses and alibis elsewhere.

There you go trying to pluck the mote from your neighbor's eye before removing the beam from your own again. tsk tsk

You're a hypocrite.

Where was your "moral outrage" the last eight years when the conga line of crooks from your own party was parading through our lives almost daily?