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Photos: Dianne Wilkerson nabbed

Public Corruption Squad of the FBI arrest State Senator Wilkerson on complaint of extortion and theft.

By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 29, 2008

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A moral dilemma
We need serious action and strong leadership — and a public trust that is unlikely to be given.
FBI nabs Wilkerson
State senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of public corruption -- charges at a level far above and beyond any she has previously faced.
Obama for president
The past eight years have been disastrous for America.
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A moral dilemma
We need serious action and strong leadership — and a public trust that is unlikely to be given.
FBI nabs Wilkerson
State senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of public corruption -- charges at a level far above and beyond any she has previously faced.
Obama for president
The past eight years have been disastrous for America.
Socialist studies
With his frosty hair, necktie, and wire glasses, William Leonard resembles Barry Bostwick, the actor who played Mayor Randall M. Winston Jr. on the sitcom Spin City .
Blackballed
Turner might want to avoid hitching his fortunes to those of such utterly disreputable pols as former DC mayor Marion Barry, ex-Newark mayor Sharpe James, and Dianne Wilkerson.
Dianne's special deal
Undeterred by her Democratic primary loss to opponent Sonia Chang-Díaz, State Senator Dianne Wilkerson is forging ahead in a sticker campaign to win re-election of her Second Suffolk seat in the state legislature.
Incumbency
After state Senator Dianne Wilkerson’s bizarre failure, earlier this year, to collect enough signatures to get on September’s Democratic primary ballot, an obvious question loomed: did the senator still want her job?
Will race enter the race?
Two years ago, when Dianne Wilkerson inexplicably failed to submit the necessary signatures to get her name on the Democratic primary ballot for re-election as state senator, a 28-year-old upstart seized the opportunity.
Newton knows its rights
For an example of how the intangible conflict between individual liberties and national security plays out in real life, look no further than Newton.
An accidentally tragic timeline
Your “Terror Masala” article, unintentionally of course, is very timely in view of the atrocities in Mumbai.
Massholes
Scandal and accusations of corruption are nothing new to Massachusetts state government. Hutchinson was accused of enforcing the much-despised Stamp Act and Tea Act in part because his brother-in-law was stamp master, and two of his sons were designated tea consignees.
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