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Governor’s got some deep Pockets for his fund-raiser
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

The motto of the Massachusetts Democrat party used to be: “If you’re indicted, you’re invited.”

Now it’s been updated: “If you’re in organized crime, you organize the time.”

Am I right, Patrice Tierney, wife of moonbat Rep. Johnny Pockets Tierney? It turns out Mrs. Pockets has been a very busy felon. Not only has she been laundering $8 million for her brother, a fugitive gangster, but she’s also been organizing a chi-chi fund-raiser on the North Shore for Gov. Deval Patrick.

Apparently none of the local Democrats cared when she copped a sudden, pre-election plea in federal court last week — no jail time, of course, and a mere $2,500 fine. For laundering $8 million for mobsters. It’s good to be married to a guy named Pockets. By the way, there are more corrupt places than Boston. There have to be.

But then someone handed me an invitation to Mrs. Johnny Pockets’ fund-raiser for Deval. It lists the Mass. Democrat Party’s newest felon as “Honorary Chair” of Deval’s $50,000 time. Monday, we began calling, and a few hours later Patrice was thrown under yet another bus, just the way her husband did to her at the courthouse a week ago.

But Deval Patrick, of course, wouldn’t think of speaking ill of the felonious. “I don’t know the whole story, but it sound like a very, very sad one.”

An indictment is always a disappointment, as we used to say in Somerville.

“My heart goes out to her.”

That’s the sort of thing you say when you’re hoping that someone will stand up. Here is what her husband, Johnny Pockets, said last week in a televised debate about his wife’s organized-crime Laundromat.

“It wasn’t a family business that she was running. It was a family, a family business, but not a family business.”

Thanks for straightening that out, Pockets.

The time is scheduled next Tuesday night at the Hawthorne Hotel, which occupies a small place in the history of Salem. It’s the hotel former Rep. Michael Harrington was indicted (on 12 counts) for buying and then allegedly skimming back in 2000. He plea-bargained it down to a misdemeanor — stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

The feds bagged Harrington’s successor, Nicky Mavroules, on a felony racketeering rap. Nicky’s nickname was Pockets, too.

Back to Patrice’s party for her dear pal Deval. Ex-con, I mean Rep. Harrington is a “sponsor.” The “patrons” on the invitation include David Harrison, a former state rep and district court judge. Harrison retired along with an ex-solon-turned-judge in the wake of an incident at a zoning board hearing where Harrison’s wife (another “patron” of the party) had a beef with somebody, and the hack judge said, “Get your head out of your (expletive.)”

They were removed from the bench amidst charges of perjury and abuse of power, but ... think Patrice Tierney. Think brooms. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. Everything worked out for the best. Judge Harrison’s state pension is $78,644.52 a year.

So the time at the Hawthorne is still on, even if Patrice is indisposed. If you like corruption, vote Democrat. You can’t say you weren’t warned.
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