DiMasi’s attorney, Thomas R. Kiley, was a character witness for Boston Municipal Court Judge Raymond G. Dougan Jr. when, three months later, in November 1990, Dougan was nominated an associate justice by then-Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, according to state records.
Tom Finneran
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.”
