Armed with secret FBI wiretaps, federal prosecutors are hoping former state Sen. Thomas Bromwell?s words will come back to haunt him when he is sentenced Friday on corruption charges.

“He bragged that he was a ?whore in Maryland, on the Senate side? of the State legislature,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kathleen Gavin and Michael Leotta wrote in sentencing papers filed this week in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.