Caught stuffing cash in her bra, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson may try and save her own ass by taking down others.
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.
Obviously public officials accepting bribes is against the law, but offering them is against the law as well. It’s sad to think that Wilkerson could be just the tip of the iceberg, but seeing how lawmakers also rule their districts by fear and intimidation, paying to get them off your back could be illegal, but understandable.
More graft, more corruption. I am getting to be so cynical about politicians when they get in power and pal around with the big money. Thirty years ago they might get away with it because, you know, “The Devil Made Me Do It.” The story line is the same. Just the names change.
It has been a problem for a lot more than 30 years.
It really kicked in during Prohibition and we’ve never been able to get out from under ever since.
Democrats love draconian laws that outlaw something because it instantly creates black markets.
Which in turn serves to add to the internal destruction of this great experiment known as the United States of America.
So then logically nothing should be illegal as long as it doesn’t violate rights, right?