[massmike]

Best comment in the article:

“Even with this knowledge, Dianne Wilkerson’s constituents would vote her back into office tomorrow if they could.
The only thing worse than a corrupt Massachusetts politician is a Massachusetts voter.”

[stylin19a]

Azid Mohammed, who was placed on the stand at the request of Wilkerson’s defense team

yikes...nice prep of a witness. Don't ask questions for which you don't already know the answers.

[Peet]

...placed on the stand at the request of Wilkerson’s defense team, in hopes of undermining the prosecution’s efforts to portray a pattern of corruption apart from the extortion charge to which she has pleaded guilty.

Are not lawyers advised not to ask "a question you don't already know the answer to"? The answer didn't seem helpful.

[econjack]

Wait a minute...Didn't Pelosi say she was going to make her House the most clean group of politicians ever? Would she lie to us?

[Rio]

Ten Giga-Dollars?

[super7man]

It doesn’t bother me that politicians have a price.
(We all do, mine is $40M.)

What bothers me is how cheap they can be bought.

[BonRad]

Hey- I just posted this (hope it takes, and yes its all true) on the Herald site-rad my FR bio-this might color it a bit more:

I knew Azid. Here is a famous quote from him (words close): “You have to be a liberal to be in this business in Massachusetts”. I quickly qualified (to which he seemed to agree): “…inside 128”, but he might be right. He was the GC for The Mosque designed by Goody Clancy, though I knew this only toward end of the 2 year tops relation. U can be sure virtually almost none of the considerable population of local architects will post here because they are hard lefties almost to the man (forget the women who are ALL LIBS). I was working for a “stamp” fulfilling affirmative action quotas in South Dorchester (who owes me a few grand still, interest cut off in 2006, thanks MA AG for all the help) and we did a couple very small residential jobs for Azid, who is a freemason it should be said, but a very likeable guy. Azid was rival to a certain prominent minority GC with an office near Grove Hall. Azid himself noticed the “stamp” employer “worshipped [the rival GC]”. Who am I?