Mass. pol who stuffed money in bra pleads guilty

[The Northerner]

Source: Associated Press

BOSTON – A former state senator who was captured on video stuffing bribe money into her sweater and bra pleaded guilty on Thursday in a federal corruption case that could send her to prison for up to four years.

Former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, a Boston Democrat who was once a rising political star, entered the pleas to eight counts of attempted extortion at a hearing in U.S. District Court just weeks before her trial was set to begin.

Wilkerson was arrested in October 2008 and accused of taking $23,500 in bribes to help get a liquor license for a nightclub and an undercover agent posing as a businessman who wanted to develop state property.

She faced a total of 32 charges. Under the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining 24 counts.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100603/ap_on_re_us/us_boston_corruption

[truthisfreedom]

1. Disgusting.

I'm extremely disapponted.

[Ian David]

2. If she'd pleaded guilty on day one, she'd almost be out of jail by now. n/t

[SteveM]

3. Her take on hustling herself?

[awoke_in_2003]

4. What it takes to be a politician...

she just got caught.

[w4rma]

5. She would have made a good DLCer. Bribery is what the DLC specializes in. (nt)