Anthony Galluccio e-mail: Booze charge ‘was completely false’
By Dave Wedge | Sunday, January 10, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Politics
Jailed ex-state Sen. Anthony Galluccio pledged to continue to fight to prove he is innocent of charges he drank booze and hinted he may seek public office
again in an impassioned e-mail sent to supporters.
“When the recent violation was alleged that I used alcohol, I knew it was
completely false and believed that I could prove it in court,” Galluccio wrote in the e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by the Herald. “My promise to
abstain from alcohol and get counseling and treatment was and is my word and goes to the very core of who I am. I have not breached the promises I made to my family, my constituents, my colleagues, the court and myself in any
way. I hope that you can respect my determination to prove my innocence regarding the violation of probation.”
Galluccio, a Cambridge Democrat, was sent to jail for a year last week by a judge who found he violated the terms of his probation when he failed a Breathalyzer test while under home confinement.
The pol has claimed that his whitening toothpaste led to the positive reading and vowed to pursue an appeal of the judge’s finding. Before the violation, he was under house arrest after pleading guilty to charges connected to an
October hit-and-run crash.
“In contrast to my original act of leaving the accident, for which I accepted responsibility, this allegation was completely different,” he wrote. “People will say I am crazy and that I should have just agreed to the allegation and made a deal but my family and I made a decision not to do that. The starting point to moving forward was honesty and accepting responsibility. Admitting to
something I did not do was not an option, even knowing how serious the consequences might be. I hope all of you will take a closer look at the case and the proof put forward. I think you will then understand how I feel.”
He also said he misses his legislative work and hinted that he could return to public service.
“To say I am sad or even devastated would not begin to say how helpless I feel,” he said. “I am not disappearing, just resigning until this bad storm passes.”
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