How about the Globe headlining Sal’s lawyer’s suggestion that his cancer spread because the feds let it? Buried in the story was the as yet reported fact that the guy has stage 4 cancer. Most likely he’ll be dead by this time next year.
That’s the story. Instead the Globe uses the subtleties of the news to paint Sal as a phony trying to gain public sympathy.
Instead the story should be the boundaries the feds push in trying to manufacturer criminal indictments. They don’t want truth or justice. They want headlines and professional advancements.
So make this guy suffer mentally, physically, and emotionally then put him in front of a grand jury and start pushing him to say things that would lead to indictments of powerful people. You know what I mean. Get Sal nice and marinated so when on the hot seat the sizzle just oozes out.
Sal was suppose to be in the whatever-you-want-hear-mood which probably meant lying.
It didn’t end that way so no Con Air for Sal. Back on the Chinatown bus to Kentucky. Tongue cancer? Too bad Sal. That sucks. Watch your step. It’s a shame you didn’t “remember” things differently.
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Now Speaker Deleo, Senate President Murray and others who make the show run are so distracted by the feds that the place is like a subway train stopped dead in the tunnel.
In the meantime it’s no secret that kingmaker and House majority leader Ron Mariano is dropping mumble and grumbles about the speaker that harken back to Speaker McGee and his majority leader George Keverian. Unlike McGee, DeLeo has done nothing that I am aware of to warrant this distancing. WTF.
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I have a shout out to Rep. Michael Moran, an up and comer in the House.
Yo Mikey. I’m gonna need some B.U. tickets next season and I hear you can hook me up. I have cash. Thanks dude.
judy-meredith says
by the US Attorney’s office or the Bureau of Prisons?
farnkoff says
that this sort of shoddy medical care is typical in our prisons.
Ryan says
I don’t care what the guy did, no one deserves this to happen to them. It certainly looks like he didn’t get the treatment and care he deserved and that’s an absolute outrage that cannot be overlooked.
I can’t count the number of rabid rightwing types who either think prisoners have gold-star health care or think they should basically be allowed to get sick and die, and it absolutely horrifies me, particularly in this country where we have way more people in prison than there should be.
Everyone must be treated with dignity and compassion. Everyone must receive proper, timely and easily affordable health care. We all deserve that much, and we all have loved ones that we shouldn’t have to leave behind if at all avoidable.
Let’s hope any wrongdoing that occurred with DiMasi’s (lack of) care are investigated as vigorously as DiMasi and other state pols were over ethics charges and suspicions.
hlpeary says
I think it goes beyond intentional indifference…it was a very intentional scheme to pressure Sal DiMasi into telling feds more to incriminate more people so the feds could generate more headlines…they did not care in the ;least if it would cost DiMasi his health and life…Shame on all of them. They knew when he was convicted and sentenced that their were health issues. He should have been sent to serve his term at Devins (where his family could have visited him at least)…but, they didn’t do that because they were intent on giving him “extra” punishment to break him. They shuffled him from KY to Kansas to NY to Rhode Island (where he had NOTHING to say…duh, feds)…the self-serving behaviorUS Atty. Ortiz, the FBI, and the federal prison system over recent history has been shameful…DiMasi should be given a medical parole or , at least, a transfer to a Massachusetts facility where he can get the treatment he asked for, that doctors recommended, when it would have made a critical difference.
hlpeary says
Sorry for multiple typos and not proofing first, was just mad and in a rush…
bostonshepherd says
I was appalled by this too. He’s denied treatment? This is the US, not the Soviet Gulag. This is the US prison system…where are our US Senators and Congressmen?