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FBI had secret tape on Felix D. Arroyo
With his retirement to Uruguay on the horizon, former Boston City Councilor Felix D. Arroyo is good-humoredly brushing off the bombshell news that he was secretly recorded in his City Hall office by the same FBI snitch who helped send former Councilor Chuck Turner and state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson to prison for taking bribes.
It is unclear why Arroyo, the father of sitting Councilor-at-Large Felix G. Arroyo, was taped in 2007 or what his conversation with Hub businessman-turned-informant Ronald Wilburn was about. The taping came to light in last month’s unsealing of Wilburn’s March 3, 2009, federal grand jury testimony.
Arroyo said yesterday he has no memory of their meeting. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
Wilburn cast no aspersions on Arroyo in his testimony and Arroyo was never charged with anything.
“Hey, God bless them,” Arroyo said yesterday of the feds. “I guess you have to go fishing from time to time, and sometimes you catch a fish. The only surprise is that they didn’t tell me.”
The 62-year-old grandfather noted he will step down from his $92,000 post as director of community services for the state Department of Transitional Assistance in November and move to Uruguay to write.
His 31-year-old son, who worked as support staff for federal prosecutors in the late 1990s, told the Herald, “I’m proud of my father. They (the feds) were clearly in the middle of an investigation. They were doing their job. What they found with my father is what I’d expect them to find: nothing.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1328388
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