Ex-Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi is facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly taking kickbacks in yet another State House corruption scandal that has cast a pall over Beacon Hill and sent the onetime iron-fisted leader’s former colleagues scrambling for cover.
Agawam Mayor Susan Dawson
April 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
State Senator Marian Walsh
April 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
Sen. Walsh walks away from job offer (NECN: Josh Brogadir, Boston, Mass.) – State Senator Marian Walsh will not take a controversial job a state bonding authority. It is a setback for Walsh, and a defeat for Governor Deval Patrick. Patrick stood by Walsh as recently as a town meeting…
By Frank Phillips Globe Staff / April 1, 2009
BUSTED- $23k stuffed in her bra- SENATOR DIANE WILKERSON
March 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dianne Wilkerson Bribe
February 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
So how much bribe money will a legislator’s bra hold anyway?
Here’s an important state political story we almost missed given all the sound and fury surrounding the climax of the 2008 presidential election race between Barack Obama and John McCain and their trusty sidekicks, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
Tom Finneran
February 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Are you talkin’ to me, Felon Finneran?
I quote now from the letter that four bust-out ex-governors of Massachusetts have written to President Bush, begging them to pardon former House speaker Tommy Taxes Finneran, a man so crooked he needs a corkscrew to get into his pants in the morning.
“He has suffered daily taunts and ridicule of those who believe that every elected official is the equivalent of a common thief.”
Legislators Pay Raise MA
January 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Some state lawmakers reject pay raise
January 8, 2009 02:08 PM
By John C. Drake, Globe Staff
State lawmakers are lining up today to reject the 5.5 percent automatic pay raise that Governor Deval Patrick set in motion, saying that with local communities facing drastic budget cuts and families facing job losses, they could not pad their own pockets at taxpayer expense.
Deval Patrick’s Task Force on Public Integrity?
January 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In true Deval Patrick fashion; in retrospect of the continued debacle called Mass State Government, Deval offers us full transparency with an internal task force designed to increase the illusion of public integrity.
Sal DiMasi Elected House Speaker
January 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Salvatore DiMasi Ethics
January 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
