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Wilkerson fallout: Is Daniel Pokaski next?

Michael Pahre wonders why the feds waited until now to nab Wilkerson - since based on that affidavit, they had her cold last year. Are more dominoes about to fall? If so, Pahre predicts the next to go is Boston Licensing Board Chairman Daniel Pokaski - painted in a particularly unflattering way in the affidavit:

... BLB Chairman Pokaski will probably resign within weeks -- if not days -- because he stood to gain financially from the August 2007 meeting that allegedly resulted in him approving a temporary license for Dejavu while the state legislature approved a pay raise for him. ...

Meanwhile, Pahre raises an issue about the Globe: In all its wall-to-wall coverage in print today, the Globe made absolutely no mention of the role played in all this by its own Adrian Walker. Is the paper embarrassed the feds painted its columnist as a patsy used by Wilkerson to help blackmail the city council and Pokaski to get her client his liquor license?

It's not like Walker didn't want to write about the case. Yesterday, boston.com posted his musings. But after two paragraphs generically writing about his July column, Walker spent the rest of the piece sighing about what a shame Wilkerson had become. What did Wilkerson say to him to convince him to write that July column? We have no idea.

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let this be true. If Pokaski loses his job, I will legitimately throw a party. Time for the cancer to be removed!

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Boston Herald reports today:

A spokesman for Gov. Deval Patrick said the governor is open to giving Boston control over the board and prepared to fire Chairman Daniel Pokaski or any member if any wrongdoing is found.

“We will monitor the investigation and review the actions of board members in this matter. If there are findings of misconduct we will take appropriate action, including removal,” Kyle Sullivan said.

Pokaski could not be reached yesterday.

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He has no problem shooting off his mouth to the newspapers about how drinking establishments should run their business, but when he's in trouble, he's nowhere to be found. What a hypocrite.

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