09-08-2011, 07:15 PM
another poor dirty Boston pol is going bye bye tomorrow. 
Boston Herald
On the eve of a possible 12-to-20 year prison sentence, a somber and contrite ex-House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi addressed the court saying he’s a “broken man” asking himself nights how did he “go wrong.”
The 66-year-old disgraced North End pol will be sentenced tomorrow, but today he pleaded with a U.S. District Court judge for leniency.
“They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t want to go to hell and I don’t want to go to prison,” DiMasi told U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf.
“I appear before you today a broken man standing here before you in pieces. My family is devastated. I have lost everything I have worked for so hard for my entire life,” DiMasi said. “My pension and health-care benefits will be lost at a time when my family needs them so desperately. My home is in foreclosure. I am virtually unemployable.”
DiMasi told Wolf that since his conviction, he has stayed awake nights asking himself: “How did I go wrong?”
The disgraced speaker, convicted in June of pocketing $65,000 in bribes as part of a complex scheme to score multimillion-dollar state contracts for a Canadian software firm, said, “I have brought dishonor to the office I held — a pain I will never be able to soothe.”
DiMasi will be sentenced sometime tomorrow. The judge indicated today he is not inclined to slap a 20-year maximum sentence on him. However, he chastised DiMasi for abusing an office that had already seen it’s two previous speakers convicted on criminal charges.
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edit to add:
Disgraced ex-Speaker Salvatore DiMasi was lambasted today for betraying hard-working constituents by a federal judge who sentenced him to eight years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf, in a lengthy address to the former North End pol, said DiMasi "betrayed the promise of America."
The judge added DiMasi let voters down in a time the state was slashing the state budget taking money away from the elderly and from scholarships -- all while the ex-Speaker was accepting $65,000 in bribes.
Boston Herald
On the eve of a possible 12-to-20 year prison sentence, a somber and contrite ex-House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi addressed the court saying he’s a “broken man” asking himself nights how did he “go wrong.”
The 66-year-old disgraced North End pol will be sentenced tomorrow, but today he pleaded with a U.S. District Court judge for leniency.
“They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t want to go to hell and I don’t want to go to prison,” DiMasi told U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf.
“I appear before you today a broken man standing here before you in pieces. My family is devastated. I have lost everything I have worked for so hard for my entire life,” DiMasi said. “My pension and health-care benefits will be lost at a time when my family needs them so desperately. My home is in foreclosure. I am virtually unemployable.”
DiMasi told Wolf that since his conviction, he has stayed awake nights asking himself: “How did I go wrong?”
The disgraced speaker, convicted in June of pocketing $65,000 in bribes as part of a complex scheme to score multimillion-dollar state contracts for a Canadian software firm, said, “I have brought dishonor to the office I held — a pain I will never be able to soothe.”
DiMasi will be sentenced sometime tomorrow. The judge indicated today he is not inclined to slap a 20-year maximum sentence on him. However, he chastised DiMasi for abusing an office that had already seen it’s two previous speakers convicted on criminal charges.
edit to add:
Disgraced ex-Speaker Salvatore DiMasi was lambasted today for betraying hard-working constituents by a federal judge who sentenced him to eight years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf, in a lengthy address to the former North End pol, said DiMasi "betrayed the promise of America."
The judge added DiMasi let voters down in a time the state was slashing the state budget taking money away from the elderly and from scholarships -- all while the ex-Speaker was accepting $65,000 in bribes.