Tim Cahill indicted

By adamg on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 1:11pm

The Globe reports a Suffolk County grand jury indicted him on charges he used $1.65 million in lottery ads to boost his campaign for governor in 2010.

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I've said it before....

By Bluto on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 1:22pm.

We live in the Lousiana of the Northeast.

Or, as Howie Carr says about the State House. Nothing on the level. Everyting a deal. No deal too small.

We live in the Lousiana of

By NotWhitey on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:02pm.

We live in the Lousiana of the Northeast.

Or, as Howie Carr says about the State House. Nothing on the level. Everyting a deal. No deal too small.

Rhode Island is highly offended by this comment.

That's a bit harsh

By adamg on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:06pm.

It's not like our felons are spending state money on hookers and blow. In fact, they're more likely to stuff a few thou into their bras or, even more pitiful, steal quarters out of copy machines.

Mass not as corrupt

By HenryAlan on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:56pm.

We are the 12th least corrupt out of 50. But then again, if all 50 are corrupt....

Someone must have been paid

By NotWhitey on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 6:34pm.

Someone must have been paid off to draw up that list. I see MA is bookended by those icons of clean governance, Illinois and Rhode Island.

I read that

By Miss M on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 8:38am.

and my first thought was, "Sweet Jesus, how corrupt are the rest if MA ended up that far down?"

There is a major caveat

By HenryAlan on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 9:32am.

If you read the full report, you'll find that Massachusetts doesn't require that any public records be kept. So it's a big data black hole, one which presumably pulls much of the incriminating data beyond the event horizon.

Now the question is

By JP Gal on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 1:48pm.

will the police raid his home and office and take him away in handcuffs, like Wilkerson, or allow him to turn himself in, accompanied by counsel, like DiMasi and Finneran?

amen

By Ian on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:44pm.

we should be ashamed by corrupt actions by our representatives, and should not feel smug when those in power abuse it.

Yet, it is troubling the way the state and federal authorities choose to mock whom they see fit.

For shame; handcuffs for all.

I wouldnt expect anything

By John F on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:43pm.

Less from someone who’s tag is JP Gal. Stop race batting, this site has a great ad for "wen" by chaz Dean maybe you should purchase this hand soap to wash yourself clean of your ugly White Guilt

cahill

By bostonboy on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:50pm.

We will see if the JP pol who is a woman, gets the same treatment, when her case come up, if it ever comes up. We will have to wait and see.

The first pol to ever be indicted by Coakley?

By Dan Farnkoff on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 1:54pm.

I guess she only goes after the ones whose careers are officially over.

Or she goes after the apostates

By Bluto on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:25pm.

You know, the one's who were Democrats, then rejected the party and ran as independents?

Kind of like somebody from the LCN going free lance. For a very short time...

bingo

By anon on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:53am.

bingo

coakley and cahill

By anon on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:41pm.

Out of office and all men. Ther is one women/Pol who is being investigated, but nothing may happen, lets wait and see.

The lesson here is

By Will LaTulippe on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:36pm.

Stop voting Irish, Italian, or Democrat.

Yes

By John F on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:46pm.

We should now only vote for half Black, Christian men with Muslim names. That should fix everything, and when people question him we can just blame the former guy.

Witch hunt!

By jonbowen on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:25pm.

This smells, to me, like a witch hunt. The guy wouldn't cooperate so he gets indicted. Sure, I believe he might've used taxpayer money to advertise his candidacy, but doesn't Mayor Menino use taxpayer money to slap his name on every sign he can possibly get his hands on?!

Indict them all!

By HenryAlan on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:27pm.

This is indeed a standard tactic around here. Why go after just one?

I don't know if it's a witch hunt, but

By issacg on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 5:09pm.

if this is what the AG's got and she has to prove "fraudulent intent" it's going to be a tough case indeed:

Cahill’s name and picture were not used in the ads. But Coakley said the essence of his alleged crime was “using public resources to give yourself an edge which other people wouldn’t have.”

My sense of this is that there is some allegation somewhere of the misappropriation of funds. If not, and if what Coakley said is enough to trigger the statute, it does call into question Menino's famous insistence that his name be on everything, along with Secretary Galvin's face and name being all over everything his office touches. I am confident there are tens or hundreds of additional examples.

Not to mention, Channels 23, 24, and sometimes 9

By Dan Farnkoff on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:44am.

All Menino, all the time.

What's the difference?

By anon on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 6:42pm.

No different from the politicians who put their names on everything from hospital wings, public buildings, monuments and memorials. This isn't anything new.

Tim Cahill indicted

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