Nov 21, 2008 6:49 pm US/Eastern
City Residents Frustrated Over Turner Arrest
ROXBURY (WBZ) ―
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The FBI released these surveillance photos which, they say, show Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner accepting a $1,000 bribe.
In Roxbury today, there is anger and frustration over the arrest of yet another local politician.
"I'm disappointed, very disappointed," said one woman as she passed in front of City Councilor Chuck Turner's office.
It was early Friday morning that the Roxbury representative to the Boston City Council was
arrested at his City Hall office, on corruption charges stemming from the same federal investigation that snared state Senator Diane Wilkerson.
Turner is alleged to have accepted $1,000 from the same informant who helped point the finger at
Wilkerson. "These politicians have to be more careful...and they have to standup for those of us who live here. So they should be on the up and up," said a young man heading to the busses at Dudley Station.
Federal investigators claim Wilkerson and Turner accepted cash, in exchange for pushing through a liquor-license application for a Roxbury businessman. And it was that businessman who went to authorities, claiming the two politicians were "shaking him down."
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