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
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
Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:02pm
Rhode Island is highly offended by this comment.
That's a bit harsh
By adamg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:53am
bingo
coakley and cahill
By anon
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
Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:36pm
Stop voting Irish, Italian, or Democrat.
Yes
By John F
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
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
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
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:
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
Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:44am
All Menino, all the time.
What's the difference?
By anon
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.