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[0:18] ..." Michael the US attorney's office has on limited resources of the federal Department of Justice. Could bring charges against anybody and make it very difficult to defend themselves and improve their time and time again and is"...
[1:43] ..." However in recent months the state senator Dianne Wilkerson has been. Faced with that these same sort of allegations and in her case. The government says that it has videotapes secret"...
[3:08] ..." was just you know another a freshman rep war -- of the North End is are you surprised at this."...
[4:59] ..." To -- made it clear that he wasn't going to tape would Deval Patrick said. Without challenging it."...
[5:12] ..." to speak with powerful but not all powerful committee chairman -- on the Senate side of what looks at the Senate -- individual senators still have. More power. Just stop things to appeal force then then the individual -- that the reps are"...
[0:00]" Is seldom -- the victim of an overzealous criminal justice system or just the latest example of Massachusetts corruption. Culture at the state house joining us this morning is. The Boston political consultant of the government insight group here in the -- Michael Goldman garden the first things first Michael the US attorney's office has on limited resources of the federal Department of Justice. Could bring charges against anybody and make it very difficult to defend themselves and improve their time and time again and is one judge famously concluded. You could indict a ham sandwich so how -- important Isis."
[0:37]" What's important is freeway number one what's the status of the talking about the wild this case. And earlier -- news story that was that was -- out potential. Misconduct involving. The scheme and selling tickets scalp tickets -- think about the scalping -- tickets in this particular indictment people who -- in the last -- with a deep -- extraordinary. Unfortunately sadly I've seen too many of these cases in this what is fundamentally different -- involved in the fall as speaker clarity which was a personal tax issues that -- years before -- speaker of course. The cases because -- involved. Not anything -- and illegally but that he lied about what he didn't import and and he pulled from -- that -- problem this is really -- An indictment eruption and that makes it different and people I think we're extraordinarily. Taken aback by -- of the indictment."
[1:43]" However in recent months the state senator Dianne Wilkerson has been. Faced with that these same sort of allegations and in her case. The government says that it has videotapes secret evidence of -- receiving payoffs and a Boston city councilor also. Has been accused of having news. Hand out and having it -- by people who want to special interest forwarded in this in government what does this say about government in Massachusetts."
[2:10]" Evidence says literally anything about the volume of process people who would be here you know the deal the old line which is is most people in in in any business any occupation and -- and are always dishonest people finally try to make something that. There is the difference between the two workers in case in which this was this was if you will snapped according to the threat to snatch and grab an individual. Who found a way of of of abusing her office. For personal gain. In the case the speaker we're talking about something equate this indictment much larger and seven -- someone who is fixed completely. Pop popular among members among people that stood aside and myself were closed -- thirty years. This is not somebody who people would've thought it would -- what happened the previous two speakers living and like I did."
[3:05]" You know on the -- for thirty years the from the time that he was just you know another a freshman rep war -- of the North End is are you surprised at this."
[3:14]" I think that that -- sense to me is that if they -- feeling that the judges cannot mutual and obviously the -- the presumption of innocence we should always remember that. It does so to -- that they may be something fundamentally flawed with the office of the speakership is based simply. Need to be. We constituted so that all the power that the flow opera in the old days when you and I started back when when the old -- forty house. There was always a lot of this the first group both. Sort of of of agitated if you will. He did seem to be a very different institutions now everything seems to for the top and that may be. Simply that the that the simply makes it was a case of -- it difficult for him to resist the temptation -- it's very important remember how fundamentally different this case is these accusations that. -- They were again by took great Jerry stupid. Not not being -- stupid but not public corruption as this case so. Graphically indicates that -- ticket licking its conflict of the season at three different."
[4:28]" Right pretty but it is the old the maximum power for an absolute power corrupts absolutely. Seldom Macy did the walk the corridors of power with a certain swagger of arrogance in the."
[4:43]" Well I think he was -- speaker like you know people watching a feeling in -- worked hard to get there like."
[4:49]" whistle the agenda he like to tell the governor what to do not just general governor it was a Republican elected tell the new governor's well actually he from the first days of the Patrick administration. To -- made it clear that he wasn't going to tape would Deval Patrick said. Without challenging it."
[5:04]" Which is why I go back to my coveted that affected may do we have to rethink about the way we have the speaker should now what went went with back when he started to speak with powerful but not all powerful committee chairman -- on the Senate side of what looks at the Senate -- individual senators still have. More power. Just stop things to appeal force then then the individual -- that the reps are really in many ways. Dependent on the on the on the -- if you will of the speaker. For a possible way too many things I think with the beautiful looking yet. If if this has that we true -- and the judge -- to be true and he is convicted. Then we really have to think community to please look take -- to step to say to what felt. Is a fundamental change that has to take place should we go back to the system of the week could speak her more members. You know not a full time job but we all kinds of things ought to be put in the mix because quite frankly this is. If you look if your state -- from from anywhere the -- forty waking up if they keep yourself to my constituents think this is me to my constituents think that this is what I do what I would do. It's for most of it's it's it's almost unthinkable that this could be happening particularly against somebody who. They had a lot of confidence and an entirely followed two people who found themselves in trouble at the feds and -- with a little. What -- daughter they're BI crossed every T made very short that -- that -- that I'd like this ever could happen to him."
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