Few people are less deserving of American citizenship than ungrateful, disloyal former Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson. During her tenure in public office she was caught on video, appearing not to take her oath of office, requiring that she take the oath again. On another occasion, in a true manifestation of evil and banality, Fernandes Anderson referred to the October 7 massacre of innocent Israeli citizens as “a military operation.”
The U.S. Census Bureau informs us that most single Americans, who work full time are paid, and required to live on, less than $50,000 a year. In Boston, taxpayers paid newcomer Fernandes Anderson more than twice that amount, but she doesn’t appear to have been able to live on the $120,000, a year, she was receiving for “working” allegedly on a full-time basis as a Boston City Councilor.
In December 2024, Fernandes Anderson was indicted by a federal grand jury. Caught “red handed” in a City Hall bathroom, shaking down and extorting a relative, Fernandes Anderson, pleaded guilty to a reduced set of federal public corruption charges – one count of wire fraud, and one count of theft involving public funds.
Fernandes Anderson’s sentencing date, originally scheduled for this past July, was reportedly put over until September 4, 2025, so that she could help out with her son’s new born child. It is predicted, that come September, Ms. Fernandes Anderson will present a new set of special reasons why she can’t go to jail. Some believe there may be no need for her to worry, however.
The government is recommending a sentence of one year and one day to be followed by three years of supervised release and restitution in the amount of $13,000. Under that arrangement, Tania might only have to serve about 10 and a half months. This is because federal inmates are eligible for “good time” credit, which can reduce sentences by about 15%, and other potential reductions may also be made available to her.
Fortunately for Tania, in April of this year, 2025, State Trooper Calvin Butner pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to falsify records, three counts of falsifying records and aiding and abetting, and five counts of making false statements. This plea relates to a 74-count indictment wherein he, along with five others, were charged in the conspiracy and related schemes involving falsifying Commercial Drivers’ License tests in exchange for the payment of cash bribes. Trooper Butner and his associates had to know that their repeated, unlawful actions endangered human lives.
For his crimes, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani is reported to have sentenced Trooper Butner to three months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release with the first three months in home confinement. Under the “good time” rules cited above, and other considerations, Trooper Butner might possibly be required to serve only two and a half months or less.
Some prognosticators envision Tania, in a matching designer burka and eyeglasses, re-elected, just like James Michael Curley, from a jail cell. Other people think she may have no need at all to worry about jail. Unlike Mayor Curley, Tania didn’t take a civil service test for a pal. Is her recent transgression a relatively blasé matter, or something more serious? Stealing in a girls’ room, in City Hall Boston! Who could possibly care? Given the light sentence given to Trooper Butner, an individual who really was endangering people’s lives, Tania’s supporters may find it is difficult to see how the former city councilor will be required to pay any fine at all, or serve any time at all.
In spite of Trooper Butner’s recent sentence, old timers still shudder when they remember what happened to Senator Dianne Wilkerson, who was caught on tape, stuffing cash in her bra. Seventeen years ago, in 2008, Senator Wilkerson was arrested on public corruption charges. The beautiful state senator with the bright future ended up serving a federal prison sentence from 2011 to 2013, and she was disbarred. Life can be filled with unnecessary, self-imposed tragedies.
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