Sep 26, 2006 8:50 am US/Eastern
Report: More Money Problems For Wilkerson
BOSTON (CBS4) ―
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State Senator Dianne Wilkerson (File)
CBS
These are not good times for state Senator Dianne Wilkerson.
First, she faces a recount in her still undecided primary race. Now, according to a published report, she's bounced thousands of dollars in checks and owes thousands more in condo fees.
According to a report in the Boston Globe, a judge has ordered her to pay $13,335 to the Douglass Park Condominium Association for fees she has not paid. She also allegedly bounced more than $5,000 worth of checks in the last three years.
Meanwhile, her Democratic challenger in the primary, Sonia Chang-Diaz, has collected enough signatures to force a recount of ballots in eight of ten districts in their race.
At this points, Chang-Diaz is nearly 700 votes behind Wilkerson.
Wilkerson was forced to mount a write-in and sticker campaign after she failed to obtain the necessary signatures to get her name on the primary ballot.
These are just the latest twists in the turbulent career of Wilkerson, the only black state senator on Beacon Hill.
In 1997, she pleaded guilty to failing to file tax returns from 1991 to 1994. She was sentenced to house arrest, then sent to a halfway house for 30 days by a federal judge after twice breaking a court-ordered 9 p.m. curfew.
She is facing a campaign finance lawsuit filed by the state attorney general alleging she failed to report nearly $27,000 in donations and refused to explain more than $18,000 in personal reimbursements.
Prosecutors were also reportedly considering perjury charges against Wilkerson in connection with testimony in her nephew's manslaughter conviction appeal.
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