Actual FBI surveillance video of Dianne Wilkerson stuffing bribes in her bra in a Boston restaurant where she accepted a payoff from an informant.
Posted on 08/03/2010 7:16:30 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Dianne Wilkerson asked me to do it
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said yesterday he has “no regrets” about his role in helping a troubled Boston bank qualify for a $12 million federal bailout now at the center of ethics charges against California Rep. Maxine Waters.
In fact, Frank - chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee - says he never helped OneUnited at the behest of Waters, whose husband had served on the bank’s board.
Instead, the Bay State congressman said he worked to promote the bailout at the request of scandal-plagued then-state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson.
“I was already working on behalf of OneUnited, I was called by Senator Wilkerson and others, I don’t remember who. I was out in California doing a hearing and got a call from Wilkerson,” he told the Herald yesterday.
At the time Frank said he acted on Wilkerson’s behalf, the senator was one month away from federal bribery charges to which she recently pleaded guilty. She had previously pleaded guilty to failure to pay federal income taxes and been cited for unreported campaign donations and expenditures.
In 2001, she was fined as a sitting senator by the State Ethics Commission for failing to report consulting fees from OneUnited’s predecessor, the Boston Bank of Commerce, for which she had lobbied.
Wilkerson did not return a call seeking comment, but Frank said he felt “vindication” from a federal ethics panel report released yesterday as charges against Waters were leveled by the U.S. House.
Frank said he advised Waters to “stay out of it” because of her potential conflict of interest in pushing OneUnited’s bailout under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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He has no regrets about being a POS sewer dwelling sexual deviate as well.
Diane Wilkerson is a worse criminal than Maxine Waters.
I don’t see how this is a defense of his actions. This akin to telling the judge; “I didn’t take money from Lucky Luciano I took money from Al Capone.” Out of the pan into the fire as they say.
Frank’s district must be scumbag central to keep returning him to Washington.
Read up on Diane Wilkerson. This entire bank bailout thing is nasty. It seems we have elected officials with less character and honesty than orgainzed crime members. Howie Carr will have a field day with this.
Actual FBI surveillance video of Dianne Wilkerson stuffing bribes in her bra in a Boston restaurant where she accepted a payoff from an informant.
“Diane Wilkerson is a worse criminal than Maxine Waters.
I don’t see how this is a defense of his actions. This akin to telling the judge; “I didn’t take money from Lucky Luciano I took money from Al Capone.” Out of the pan into the fire as they say.”
Thanks Guys I just read her record, Holy Crap!!! LOL the Skank was even filmed taking a Bribe!! What a Joke these people are.
Yo Ethics Committee, Get Whitey!!
oh gods and shiva thats unsavory. Anyone have any eye bleach?
Just wondering...Is there any investigation going on with regard to Frank and Dodd?
Of course one of the men who got us into this economic mess would justify any of his criminal and corruption-ridden dealings....this should be an expected ping. =.=
Maybe Maxine’s demise in the stinking cesspool of her own making will taint Bawney as well.
Nice bio. Half of it is titled Legal Troubles, subsection Perjury and Related Charges. haha. Way to slog through the gutters of life.
She also frequently was required to wear a court ordered ankel bracelet montitoring device.
Is Barney’s Gay Bar nickname Vlad the Impaler?
No, he's more of a SpongeBob SquarePants looking for a young Vlad the Impaler. ..snicker...
There's another benefit from the Republicans taking control of the House next January, removal of this POS from the chairmanship of that committee.
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