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Fri column ping Speak up, Sal Dimasi or itll be a long time in jail By Howie Carr | Friday, January 28, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists Time to plead guilty, Sal DiMasi. Its payback time, Sal. You have been selected as the makeup call for Chuck Superfly Turner. The streak ends with you, Mistah Speakah. No, not the streak of legislative leaders being indicted. That streak will never end. Im talking about the streak of corrupt white politicians in Boston getting caught committing the most heinous sorts of crimes and then walking away without even spending a day in stir. Its the good old boys network. Generations of Hibernian highwaymen, and their faithful Italian companions, have gotten away with everything and after they plead out, theyre handed fat pensions and their own rotten, no-ratings talk shows. But the whole racket has gotten a little too obvious. Sal, its time to jail a white guy. Think about this, Sal. Chuck took a grand, and he gets three years. Youre accused of pocketing $57K. If, God forbid, youre found guilty, and Judge Mark Wolf uses the Superfly sentencing guidelines, you are looking at . . . 171 years. On the bright side, youll be eligible for parole in 144 years and 4 months in the year 2155. Repeat after me, Sal: Guilty, your Honor. The best you can hope for at this point is to keep your bit to a bare minimum. I dont care what Tom Kiley is telling you as he chauffeurs you down Northern Avenue to the courthouse in that green Jaguar of his. Of course, the old phenomenon of rewarding crooked pols went far beyond Felon Finneran and Good Time Charlie Flaherty and Mrs. Johnny Pockets. Remember the late Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, also known as Money Fitz? Relieved a bag lady of $200,000, which he was ordered to repay . . . to her estate. So his fellow hacks made him the State House sergeant at arms the guy with the top hat and the stick whose only real task every year is to lead the governor into the House chambers for the State of the State address. How about the Boston city councilor Brian McLaughlin, better known as Cryin Brian after he broke down and began weeping when he explained how terrible it was to have to hide the cash he grabbed from a developer in the bedroom in his parents house, where he still lived at the age of 30? Cryin Brian didnt get life he got a lifetime sinecure at City Hall. Who says crime doesnt pay? It damn sure does if youre a white hack from Boston. I know Chuck talked his way into Club Fed all by himself. But still, just to prove the system isnt as corrupt as it so obviously is, the cops are going to have to lock up a white guy. Paging Sal DiMasi . . . Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1312540
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