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TODAY'S HOWIE CARR COLUMN
Beacon Hill crime family needs Finneran to set the example
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
There is one way Tom Finneran could have avoided all this.
He could have his time in prison like a man.
Prison would have been good for him. Maybe he could have turned his life around. Maybe this public enemy could have pulled out of his squalid descent into a life of crime. As a felon, a notorious local criminal, Tommy Taxes could have paid his debt to society.
And another thing: does the Bureau of Prisons still pay for cons’ hair transplants?
Scooter Libby’s going to the can for the exact same crime Finneran committed - obstruction of justice. Why should a crook like Tommy Taxes get a pass on it? Who the hell does he think he is, Sandy Berger?
Tommy Taxes’ problems started last week when he told Gov. Deval Patrick that the two of them should take me for a ride in Deval’s DeVille.
“Three will leave,” he said. “Only two will come back.”
For once, Tommy was right. Only two did come back - me and Deval.
Tommy violated his probation, his “unsupervised probation.” As a concerned citizen witnessing a crime, I had no choice. I dialed 911.
But there is a larger reason why Tommy Taxes needs to do maybe a year in Club Fed. Because it might send a message to the Beacon Hill Crime Family that has been running roughshod over law enforcement lately.
Incarcerating the hacko di tutti hacki, which is Finneran, might at least teach all the caporegimes and the soldiers and the associates of the Beacon Hill mob that no one is above the law.
Well, almost no one.
I mean, the solons aren’t even bothering to put on masks anymore before they start robbing. Do you realize that in the last two weeks, more state reps - or their relatives - have been arrested or sentenced than reporters for the Boston Globe have been caught plagiarizing?
Now that’s an epidemic.
Let’s go over the list, and these are just the ones I know about.
Ex-Rep. Chris Asselin of Springfield was packed off to the federal pen in Seagoville, Texas. He is now known as 90812-038. Most of his family, including his mother and father, have also been convicted of stealing public funds.
Walter Silveira III, the son of former state Rep. Walter Silveira Jr. of Fairhaven, was charged with, among other things, selling prescription painkillers to an FBI informant.
Fred Allen Swan, brother of Rep. Ben Swan of Springfield, pleaded guilty in a $900,000 bid-rigging scheme. He got probation - stop me if you’ve heard this before.
How many more, Mr. Speaker? How many more?
As for Tommy Taxes, he now jumps out of his skin every time the phone rings, hoping that he’s not being summoned to a probation-violation hearing in front of Judge Richard Stearns.
Felon Finneran spent most of his adult life at the State House. I used to think it was higher, but after the idiotic way he’s been behaving over the last couple of years, I’d peg his IQ at about 102, barely above average. In the Mass. Legislature, a 102 IQ means they call you “the Per-fessor.”In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man shall lead.
Now he finds himself on the radio, and guess what - the average listener has an IQ at least 20 points higher than the average solon, and is a lot more law-abiding. People on the street wonder, how does this tax-fattened hyena get away with committing a heinous crime and not do a day - not one single minute - in the can?
All of a sudden, Finneran has to deal with people who don’t move their lips when they read. That’s bad enough, but not having the state budget as his club anymore is even worse. Nobody who’s listening to him has a hack job. Remember, they’re driving to . . . work.
And Tommy Taxes ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait until he finds out that most people actually have to work on “Evacuation Day.”
C’mon Tommy, turn yourself in. You can room with Asselin down in Seagoville. You did the crime, you gotta do the time.
I was really hoping to hear Howie today -- about Deval Patrick and Ameriquest -- even the Globe isn't happy about this one:
Two weeks ago, Patrick placed a call to former US Treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin, now a top executive at Citigroup, interceding on behalf of owners of Ameriquest Mortgage, which was seeking urgent financial assistance from the giant firm. When questioned by the Globe late Friday, Patrick defended the call, saying that he was not acting in his role as governor and that he simply offered a reference at the request of a top official at ACC Capital Holdings, which owns Ameriquest and other financial firms.In yesterday's statement, Patrick backed down from his adamant stance that the call was appropriate, but reiterated that he was not compensated by the owners of Ameriquest Mortgage and does not have a financial interest in the company.
The deal between Citigroup and ACC Capital was completed last week. Ameriquest, which provides high-interest mortgages to high-risk lenders, has been repeatedly accused of predatory lending practices. Patrick served on the ACC board for two years, earning a salary of $360,000, until he resigned in July.
Don't blame me -- I voted for Muffy! ;-)
Can't wait to hear Howie comment on the Devaluator's phone call. Poor guy made another mistake.
I tuned in to Eagan and Braude to hear them titter over the latest "kerfuffle." Imagine if this had been Romney.