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Indigent my ass
What a crock of crap. Even now she is screwing each and every one of us whose tax dollars are now paying for her lawyer. She sure doesn't look indigent being driven around in a huge black escalade. By the way, what was she throwing away from her State House office that she had to sneak in and not say she was there.
She and Chuck Turner are a disgrace to the City of Boston and the State of Massachusetts. Please send both of them away so we never have to hear about them again.
AIGonizingly Indigent
When my brother and I would goggle at a rare display of wealth not involving longhorns on a cadilac, we would say "wow, they much be rich!" ...
To which my parents would add "or deeply in debt".
Indigent means that your assets are far less than your debts and there is no expectation that you can possibly generate enough income to overcome that, not that you don't have some expensive things around or other consumer trappings.
I have to wonder whose drug habit she was supporting though - with her education, connections, and adequate salary, one would think that she would be plenty able to afford that Escalade and a nice home in a not-so-pricey area, nice clothes, a bit TV, etc.
At least Chuck Turner ...
Has the decency to drive an early '90s Geo Prizm.
Thats what Ive been
Thats what Ive been thinking. I figured between her ok salary, her LAW degree (I know amazing isnt it), her connections ect she would have enough money to get by. Add onto that the fact that shes probaly been taking bribes for years now, you have to wonder what she was spending the money on. She lives in Roxbury so she cant be sending it all into her mortgage.
It doesnt make any sense.
family?
Does her husband work, and does she have kids at home (or at college getting financial support from her)?
Extended family?
Remember, she's the only one of a dozen or so in her family to even set foot in an instititution of higher education. In some extended families, that means that you are expected to share an share and share.
My mom always rigidly firewalled our family from her eighty five (no joke!) first cousins in her extended tribe because she grew up with many of her mom's eleven siblings and their kids and kid's kids or her dad's neices and nephews just showing up and staying and sponging unless discouraged from doing so.
I have to wonder if she has been bailing everybody out of what ever.
Extended families can be a
Extended families can be a curse or a blessing, I guess it depends on the situation. It helps if everyone is on the same level, problems arise when one part moves up the ladder faster then the others, then people start to resent each other and the ones lower on the ladder start feeling that they are entitled to XYZ while at the same time those on the higher part of the ladder feel they are too good for everyone else. Its a viscious cycle.
How it makes sense
We know from past incidents that Wilkerson can't handle her money (non-payment of both federal taxes and condo fees). Why would (still alleged) bribes change that?
I guess your right lol I
I guess your right lol
I just figured more money = paying the bills although I guess its a bit silly to expect prudent financial decisions from someone who takes bribes.
Taxes on the bribes
The funny part is that she now has to pay income tax on the money she got from bribes.
Im indignant over her
Im indignant over her indigence!
How about debtor's prison?
(snark on) At least it would satisfy that small part of us that would like to see some punishment meted out. (snark off)
EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE
EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE for ANY crime deserves representation in our court system. This is a basic right and a foundational value of our country.
Do all the annoyed people here realize we're also going to fit the bill for her time in jail too? It is likely that will cost us a lot more, and yet somehow I bet people will be less bothered by that line item.
Great to see that your
Great to see that your havent identified yourself in anyway...
Well ya know its not really about this particular sum of money, after all we are talking about very small sums of cash compared to the State Budget and the dollar signs the Fed is throwing around bailing people out right now. Rather its about the system as a whole, and the attitude expressed by certain people in power. Imagine if everyone acted the same way Senator Wilkerson did, the state would come to a grinding halt. We have rules, we follow those rules, if you dont follow the rules you get punished. I believe that a punishment is not meant to punish the offender, rather it is meant to deter people from doing the same thing in the future. These guys are getting punished in the legal and social realm, the hope is that others will see this and decide its not worth taking bribes if this is what happens when they get caught.
If we always measured punishments by looking at a cost benefit anaylsis that only measures the singular crime versus the punishment our entire legal system would change. When someone murders an innocent person they get put in jail. What happens if the murderer is someone who produces 500,000 worth of goods every year, and he killed someone who was producing 30,000 worth of goods every year? Should we not put the killer in jail because were going to lose his 500,000 and its going to cost us an additional 80,000 (random numbers) to keep him in prison as well?