The Globe gets the exclusive interview; she says she didn't do anything for the $70,000 she got but never reported over the past ten years.

Jay Fitzgerald: Incredible:

... I didn't even know that 'personal fund-raising' had been apparently OK'd by the state's ethics commission. Wilkerson has two commission letters to prove it. ...

And, as Jay notes, this is something Richard Vitale is probably reading up on.

PolitickerMA reports on the indictment released today that charges Turner and Wilkerson with conspiring to extort money from the "Cooperating Witness," whom the feds are now calling "Witness A" and whom everybody else knows as Roxbury businessman Ron Wilburn.

Read the indictment.

Several reports say it's related to the Wilkerson bribery case. They tried to arrest him at home last night, but he wasn't there.

The Globe reports he'll be charged with extortion and lying to FBI agents in a sting related to Wilkerson's manipulations to get a liquor license for "CW," also known as Ron Wilburn, for his Dejavu club at the Crosstown center on Melnea Cass Boulevard.

To be arraigned in Worcester, of all places.

Take a look at this Jamaica Plain Gazette interview from Nov. 10 in which Turner accused the feds of trying to set him up.

The affidavit in the Wilkerson case doesn't specifically mention Turner. However, in a section on bribery related to a proposed development on Harrison Avenue, it does state:

Associate A also explained that Wilkerson "orchestrates" the "small timers" including a second named member of the House of Representatives and a named Boston City Councilor. Associate A suggested that each of those individuals should be paid $1,000. Associate A agreed to make introductions to the relevant politicians so that UC2 or UC3 could make payments to them. However, Associate A cautioned, "ninety-nine percent of the times, these people would, would accept or receive these things fro a source that tey're comfortable with."

Associate A has been identified as developer Azid Mohammed. UC2 and UC3 were undercover FBI agents (more Wilkerson players). The section raises the question: If this is what Turner was indicted for, are there a couple of state reps who should be worrying about an early morning knock on their doors?

Innocent, etc.

Could face up to 20 years in jail under the federal indictment released today. The feds are also seeking the return of the $23,500 allegedly paid to her by undercover agents and an informant as bribes.

The Jamaica Plain Gazette interviews Turner; he says an undercover FBI agent visited his City Hall office with a hidden camera. Turner also compares the way the FBI dealt with Wilkerson and him to the way the FBI went after Martin Luther King in the 1960s.

Well, that oughta swing the election Chang-Diaz's way.

Kevin McCrea reports he filed a formal complaint yesterday over the way Dianne Wilkerson's alleged briber got his liquor license.

He posts a copy of his complaint with the Suffolk County DA's office over an Aug. 15, 2007 meeting of the Boston Licensing Board. As noted in the FBI affidavit in the bribery case against Wilkerson, the board did not have Dejavu on its schedule and did not discuss the application and, yet, "on August 16, 2007, the BLB issued a letter notifying Dejavu that its petition for a malt and liquor license had been granted."

Worth noting is that the affidavit specifies that FBI agents attended the Aug. 15 hearing. It'd be interesting if Suffolk County prosecutors interviewed them for their investigation of McCrea's complaint.

She promises another announcement on Nov. 5 about her position as a state senator. Her term runs out in January.

The Globe reports she made the statement after a meeting with black clergymen, a number of whom called on her to resign yesterday.

Turns out Dianne Wilkerson has at least one fan in the media: WRKO talk show host Tom Finneran, who, of course, had his own courtroom issues, if not to the extent of facing 40 years in jail.