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Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 01:56 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 8 April 2009 10:30
23 new charges. Ouch, ouch, ouch…well you get the joke. The folks who paid to play on Beacon Hill…From Boston Herald.com:
Disgraced ex-state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson has been slapped with 23 new corruption charges that allege the Roxbury politician took bribes as far back as 2002 from a businessman trying to develop a piece of state-owned land.
A new federal indictment alleges that in November 2002 Wilkerson “began asking” an unidentified businessman for money in exchange for help on his plans for a $100 million development on state-owned land on Harrison Avenue.
The businessman “made a series of payments” to the senator ranging from $500 to $1,200 between 2002 and 2006, federal prosecutors allege.