Howie ping list for the week. He’s taking a vacation week from the radio show; if there are columns I’ll put them in this thread. In the meantime a Globe article reproduced by the Tisei campaign: a second Eremian brother steps forward
http://tiseiforcongress.com/2nd-brother-in-law-steps-forward/
Boston Globe
June 30, 2012
By Michael Levenson
Another brotherinlaw of Representative John F. Tierney, this one a fugitive from justice living in Antigua, said Friday that the congressman was fully aware of the family’s illegal gambling operation, a charge Tierney strongly denied.
Robert Eremian’s assertion, in a telephone interview from the Caribbean island where he has been living since about 2002, came a day after his brother, Daniel, said outside a Massachusetts courthouse that Tierney “knew everything” about the offshore betting business.
“I will verify everything that my brother said, which will show John Tierney is lying,” Robert Eremian said.
Tierney’s wife, Patrice, is the sister of the Eremian brothers, whom federal prosecutors allege ran a massive gambling ring from Antigua. Patrice Tierney was the first of the siblings to go to jail in the case last year, admitting “willful blindness” to the enterprise, but agreeing to plead guilty to tax fraud for her role in handling Robert Eremian’s bills and taxes in the United States.
On Thursday, Daniel Eremian was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the gambling operation. Moments afterward, he called Tierney a “liar” who “knew everything.”
On Friday, Robert Eremian, who allegedly ran the gambling business from his home and has been charged with 442 counts of racketeering, illegal gambling, and money laundering, echoed another charge his brother had made: that Patrice Tierney pleaded guilty to save her husband’s position in Congress.
“He threw my sister under the bus for his political career,” Robert Eremian said in a brief interview. “He made her plead guilty because he was afraid of an Ethics Committee investigation, and he knew he couldn’t lie in front of the
committee.”
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