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- ↑ "Boston Globe Online / Spotlight / Whitey and the FBI".
- ↑ "Former State Secretary of Transportation Charged with Filing False Tax Returns". United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. 15 December 2014.
- ↑ Milton J. Valencia (September 11, 2014). "Former Big Dig chief pleads guilty to tax crimes". The Boston Globe.
- ↑ "Former Secretary of Transportation James Kerasiotes Sentenced to Six Months in Jail for Tax Evasion". United States Department of Justice. February 5, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
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