FBI informant in Boston bribe cases says more suspects are likely to surface

The Boston Globe reports:

The federal corruption investigation unfolding in City Hall and on Beacon Hill began not with self-righteous fury, but simple frustration. Ron Wilburn's attempts to get a liquor license for a Boston nightclub were met with the kind of soul-numbing political obstacles that he felt made it virtually impossible for an outsider to get a fair hearing.

Wilburn wasn't an insider with the city licensing officials, so he became one with the FBI.

Wilburn, in his first news media interview, acknowledged yesterday that he was the cooperating witness who handed state Senator Dianne Wilkerson and Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner wads of neatly folded cash that federal authorities allege were bribes. And he pointedly said he does not expect the investigation, in which he played a central role, will end there.

"If other people aren't looked at, realistically, something is radically wrong with the process," Wilburn said yesterday.

In a free market there's no licensing from the state.Licensing leads to corruption.