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October 30 at 1:01PM

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POSTED BY: Ethan Ris

OK, it's obviously juvenile and kind of sad, but since when is stuffing your bra a crime?

Oh yeah, when you're an elected official and your choice of padding is cash from a bribe.

It seems that a Massachusetts State Senator is on the fast track to jail after falling for a sting operation that ended with her shoving cash into her bra at a fancy Boston restaurant… on camera.

Democratic state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson faces 40 years in prison after federal prosecutors outlined accusations that she accepted the bribes over an 18-month period in a money-for-legislative influence sting operation, prosecutors said. She had $6,000 in cash in her purse when she was arrested at her Roxbury home by nearly two dozen law enforcement officials, prosecutors said.

Photographs released by U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan showed Wilkerson stuffing 10 $100 bills into her bra at No. 9 Park restaurant last June. During another meeting with an undercover FBI agent two months later, Wilkerson took her granddaughter to accept a $1,000 kickback at the Fill-A-Buster restaurant, a famed political hotspot directly across the street from the Massachusetts State House, according to a 32-page affidavit filed in the case.

Wow, that's embarrassing. Not even just-convicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens stooped to shoving his bribe money into a personal undergarment.

  1. Ewww, No. 9 Park is a really good restaurant, too.

    by AWRlists October 30th at 9:46PM
  2. Better than stuffing a ballot box.

    by DrWho October 30th at 2:28PM
  3. Now that is padding your assets.

    I shudder to think how the Republicans will one up this in their scandals. Sooner or later payolla is going down some guy's shorts.

    by Bob L October 30th at 1:29PM
  4. And–she's still continuing to run for re-election.

    Maybe she thinks she can telecommute from jail.

    by thebunbun October 30th at 1:24PM

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