She's such a dirt bag
Reilly sues Wilkerson over campaign finances
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | September 29, 2005
State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, her political career already marked by a federal tax conviction and other financial violations, was sued yesterday by Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly for numerous alleged campaign law violations from 2000 and 2001, including failure to report $26,935 in political donations and failure to explain $18,277 paid to her by her political committee.
The lawsuit filed by Reilly and the head of the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance said that the violations are ''more pervasive" than similar campaign finance violations in 1998 that led to an agreement in which Wilkerson paid $11,500 in civil penalties. The complaint also said that Reilly and the campaign finance office had given the Boston Democrat repeated opportunities to explain the more recent discrepancies in her campaign finance reports, but that she has been ''unable or unwilling to provide such information."
''The prolonged noncompliance of Wilkerson and the Committee with these requirements . . . has made it impossible for OCPF to determine, and for the citizens of the Commonwealth to ascertain, how and from whom Wilkerson, as a member of the Senate, raised campaign funds, and to whom and for what purposes the Committee paid those funds out," the complaint said.