Senator Wonder Bra (D-Roxbury)
Posted on October 29th, 2008 at 10:15 am by Steve

Dianne Wilkerson stuffing bribe money into her bra

She had raised herself up from poverty, burst onto the scene as a crusading attorney for the NAACP, and championed good-government causes as a liberal legislative powerhouse. But 15 years after starting her career with the promise of a new kind of political leadership, state Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested yesterday and charged with a decidedly old-school form of corruption.

Wilkerson, the lone African-American in the state Senate, was taken into custody at her Roxbury home yesterday morning by federal agents and charged with accepting eight bribes totaling $23,500 to secure a liquor license that can sell for $300,000 on the open market and legislation to pave the way for a towering Roxbury development.

And, yes, that is a surveillance photo of the Senator stuffing alleged bribe money into her bra at a coffee shop next to the State House.

Hubris, thy name is Wilkerson.