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Grand jury issues more charges against Wilkerson
By adamg on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 5:43pm
Former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson was today charged with 23 new counts of mail and wire fraud, the US Attorney's office announced.
That brings the number of federal charges against Wilkerson for allegedly taking federal money from "Cooperating Witness" and local businessman Ron Wilborn to 32. The feds say the number of charges against City Councilor Chuck Turner remains set at five. Each faces the potential of spending the rest of their lives in prison if convicted on all the charges.
The new indictment actually relates entirely to the alleged improprieties with which the two were already charged. Instead, at least in the case of Wilkerson, it simply lays more charges on her. For example, each alleged use of e-mail or the telephone to press the case for Wilborn's club or, later, for development on a particular Roxbury parcel, now carries an individual charge.
Innocent, etc.
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Life in Prison
Sullivan's a clown who's trying to make up for the fact that he's just not smart enough to prosecute DiMasi and John Rogers for corruption by piling on the charges against hapless Dianne Wilkerson. He's already been scolded several times by Mark Wolf for screwing up prosecutions. Wilkerson is not a child molester, a serial killer, or a Dick Cheney- at worst she's a petty crook who deserves 3-5 years in Framingham or whatever. So get on with the damn trial already and stop the dramatics, Sullivan,