Dianne Wilkerson arrested

Deja Vu, which is a national nightclub conglomerate, says that their Boston location is on the corner of Washington St. and Essex St. They advertise exotic dancers, wet T-shirt contests, and special performances by XXX stars.

I don't remember seeing a sign for the club last time I walked through there, but given the advertised entertainment it may be just an easily missed blank door. Maybe under the RMV?
http://www.cd-factory.com/DEJAVU/dejavu.htm

And in another case:

According to the affidavit, Wilkerson brought along a grandchild when she accept a $1,000 kickback on Aug. 31, 2007, at the Fill-A-Buster restaurant.

He wasn't surprised that so many politicians could be bought; what did surprise him was that the bribes were *so small*.

Of course. It's not democracy if none of your constituents can afford you.

If someone got the false impression that El Mundo had endorsed Chang-Diaz, it's pretty likely they got that from reading the paper.

El Mundo editor Alberto Vasallo told the website that while another editor at the paper, Maximo Torres, had penned a column endorsing Chang-Diaz, it did not represent an endorsement from the newspaper.

Sounds like a newspaper problem, not a Chang-Diaz problem. At most newspapers, there's a unified editorial voice, and when there's an actual editorial endorsing a candidate, it's the newspaper's endorsement.

Attorney Brian Monohan seems pretty dumb:

Attorney Brian Monahan said that Natalie Hernandez based her decision to vote for Chang-Diaz instead of incumbent Senator Dianne Wilkerson in the September primary on her belief that the challenger had been endorsed by the paper.

Other Hispanic voters also took the endorsement into account, he said.

"They are members of the Latino community and they read the newspaper and the endorsement of that paper was a big factor for them in deciding to vote for Ms. Chang-Diaz," Monahan said last night.

So he's suing Chang-Diaz because of what El Mundo printed? Hack.

"This is senator Wilkerson claiming she had a conversation with the mayor and then relying that information," said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Menino. "There was never any intercept of the mayor's phone conversation with FBI."

And then under her breath after she hung up the phone: "...and thank fucking god for that, because otherwise the entire Boston city government would be fucked."

I am thrilled to hear that she has finally been exposed as the cheat and the fraud that she is--but it is ridiculous that in this city it's so difficult to get a liquor license that you have to bribe elected officials to get one. Did she really get into all this trouble over 1000 bucks? Unreal. I guarantee that her political career is not over.

Here (1.2M PDF file). It's the appendix to the complaint linked above. One example:

From the complaint, the FBI agent comments that a cooperating witness saw Wilkerson receive a 2nd bribe in their presence because she fell behind on her mortgage and pinged the club owner for a second payment! Well, obviously, we *can't* pass Question 1 now! We're not even paying our state reps enough to live on the edge of Franklin Park!

Even worse, she started race-baiting even in pursuit of this corruption! In early July 2007, she sent a package of information to a Globe columnist complaining about the lack of liquor licenses available to minorities in the city! She was attempting to foment a political environment that would grease the wheels for her minority friend trying to open a nightclub with a full liquor license. It's not enough for her to actually try to extract favors from other politicians, but to then try to stir the public through the press in order to influence her corrupt path is just sickening.

Then, after one of the bribe payments (even though she was falling behind on her mortgage only months before), she went to Foxwoods with the money!

Also, Wilkerson still uses AOL. LOL.

Also, her nickname is evidently "DeeWee" based on one of the e-mail addresses she gave them for correspondence. Also LOL.

The litany of evidence against her is truly damning. I hope she goes away for a very, very long time. She is an absolute blight on our state politics and anyone who has backed her (I'm looking at you, you crazy rat bastard, Chuck Turner) had better be quick to make distance from her. If they don't then I hope she's a political anchor that sinks them to the bottom just as fast.

Sadly, that one took me years.

The good news is they fix stuff like this quickly if you e-mail them about it. The bad news is that I've noticed them messing up things like lose/loose more often too.

Until I read this right now, I always thought that as well.

I've always just called it Mama Cass Boulevard.

The one I got next to her photo says "Relax. We'll handle it." (from AT&T)

Or did she have to hit the panty fund for that?

Two sentences from the article you linked to stand out to me:

Some supporters suggested the senator, who has a long history of campaign finance violations and personal legal problems, was being targeted by law enforcement officials.

Yes, good point, that's usually how they catch criminals/repeat offenders...by targeting them.

Asked about those concerns, one of Wilkerson's two sons who attended the hearing, Cornell Mills, said afterward, "What can you say? We'll just have to wait and see how it works out."

Wow, her son totally thinks she's guilty.