Chuck Turner subpoenaed in Wilkerson probe

By adamg - 10/29/08 - 10:40 am

The Herald reports City Councilor and prominent Dianne Wilkerson supporter Chuck Turner has been subpoenaed as part of the federal investigation into Sen. Dianne Wilkerson (and props to the Herald editor who came up with the "BUSTED" headline atop one of those surveillance photos).

And among the things the feds wanted in particular were all records related to Turner's contacts with developers who might have had dealings with Wilkerson, including Arthur Winn, who is responsible for that giant hole in the ground where Columbus Center on the South End/Back Bay line was supposed to go. Wilkerson was a prominent backer of this Norwegian Blue of Boston developments, which got some state financial backing before it went into suspension. Also requested: anything related to a developer to whom Wilkerson tried to get the state to sell some land on Harrison Avenue - for which Wilkerson is now charged with taking bribes from undercover FBI agents.

As the Herald notes, the government was casting "a wide net" in the subpoena, not that it was accusing anybody besides Wilkerson of any wrongdoing.