Vitale Indicted

AG Martha Coakley has scheduled a 2:30 press conference to announce "the indictment of Richard Vitale on lobbying and campaign finance violations in connection with work on behalf of ticket brokers’ organization."

This can't be good news for Speaker Sal, at least in the short term. In the longer term, if he's got truly clean hands then this could be the best path to a full airing of the facts.

BTW, we may be seeing the start of the path that always seems to prevent our AGs from climbing to higher office: creating enemies through investigations that embarass powerful people.