Old hacks by no means die — they only hold getting busted time and again and once more.
This has been like previous residence week within the hackerama, what with obscene pay raises, falling-down-drunk state reps, jailbirds working for his or her previous workplaces, a triple-dipper fined $10,000, an extra-greedy sheriff who appears to be like like a burnt-out hippie, and final however not the least the Return of Troopergate.
First, ex-Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, Bureau of Prisons #21757-038. As quickly as I heard the great information that she was searching for a brand new time period (within the legislature, not jail), I tweeted out a bulletin with the well-known photograph of her stuffing the feds’ C-notes into her bra.
It was enjoyable to be utilizing Twitter once more, with out guilt, now that Elon Musk has freed it of its Stalinist shackles. All of us can have enjoyable once more! And so instantly, Donnie Palmer, a Boston Republican candidate, tweeted again at me: “Some invest their money in an IRA, others invest their money in a BRA!”
Exactly, Donnie. The solely factor that shocked me was how many individuals would nonetheless be asking how an ex-con can run for workplace.
How quickly everybody forgets – till Dianne gained the Roxbury Senate seat in 1992, it had been traded backwards and forwards for many years between two jailbirds, Bill Owens (MCI-Walpole) and Royal Bolling Sr. (he did his federal stretch at Danbury).
Danbury, in fact, was additionally the place an earlier worthy from Roxbury, Mayor James Michael Curley, served his second jail time period. I can’t keep in mind the place ex-Rep. Dave “Okie” O’Connor of Mission Hill did his five-month bid again within the early 1970’s.
In different phrases, if Dianne can simply make the first poll, her marketing campaign slogan needs to be, “The Tradition Continues.”
Then there’s the Democrat sheriff of Nantucket, James A. Perelman. The insane new state finances raised his wage from $108,970 to $196,000 a 12 months. This former cook-turned-court-officer has no jail, which accounts for his present wage beneath that of different sheriffs.
I instantly tweeted out that story, too. But actually, I wasn’t that till I bought an image of the sheriff. When I put out that photograph out it bought simply the response from the Twitterati that I’d anticipated.
“He looks like a roadie for the Doobie Brothers!” somebody tweeted again at me.
Except that roadies for the Doobie Brothers weren’t within the behavior of sporting three badges.
Next got here breaking information from the 413 space code – Richard Theroux, an notorious western Mass. payroll patriot, had been fined $10,000 by the State Ethics Commission.
Theroux made hack historical past in 2016. At the time, he was gathering three paychecks and/or pensions from the hackerama.
So he determined to set a brand new world’s file by working for state rep and begin grabbing an unprecedented fourth test. I wrote a column about Theroux’s going for the gold and he dropped his bid, however he was nonetheless jammed up.
It seems, like each different hack he has a summer season place on the Cape. But when Theroux went down for summer season junkets for certainly one of his hack sinecures, he would use what the State Ethics Commission referred to as “phony receipts” to gather but extra cash for staying at his personal rental.
Then he signed vouchers to pay his personal bogus vouchers — $5650. Now he should pay again the stolen cash and a $10,000 civil high quality.
It’s a tragic solution to rejoice his fiftieth anniversary on the public trough – Theroux scored his first hack job on the age of 19, in 1972.
“It was a mistake but not on purpose,” this Hack Hall of Famer is quoted as saying within the native newspaper.
Speaking of the State Ethics Commission, this week it additionally determined {that a} veritable Who’s Who of the Worcester County hackerama needs to be fined $20,000 apiece for his or her roles within the sordid scandal of Troopergate.
In case you’ve misplaced observe of Troopergate within the endless stream of MSP corruption, this one concerned a bunch of unemployable state slugs attempting to tamper with a State Police report. The botched cover-up concerned the arrest of the hack daughter, Alli Bibaud, of a hack choose Timothy Bibaud, who was a coatholder for the dim oaf who’s the district lawyer of Worcester County, Joe Early Jr.
Among those that tried to suppress the brag by Alli (who in fact was a Mass Pike toll taker) about what sexual acts she’d needed to carry out to get the cash to buy her narcotics was Richard McKeon, the disgraced ex-colonel of the MSP.
This being Massachusetts, the crooked McKeon is not going to lose his $170,947-a-year state pension, nor will his pathetic minion, ex-Capt. Susan Anderson, who’s grabbing a $141,487-a-year kiss within the mail.
Speaking of Worcester, do you suppose Rep. David “Sleepy” LeBoeuf has recovered from what should have been a hangover of epic proportions after his arrest Tuesday evening in Quincy for Driving While Democrat?
Is there anybody in Worcester County politics who shouldn’t be an entire bleeping shame?
Not simply the above-mentioned stalwarts of Troopergate, however what about Sleepy’s fellow DWD pols – ex-Lt. Gov. Tim “Crash” Murray, who was going 108 m.p.h. at daybreak in his pajamas surveying “storm damage” when he collided with a wall.
Or Rep. Paul Kujawski, who after his OUI advised me, “I’m not like you guys from Boston. When I got to the State House, I thought everybody was my friend.”
Or Rep. John Fresolo — not sufficient room to enter his tawdry file. Just Google his identify and mine, and a quick primer will pop up from 2016.
One last item: On Friday, the governor put out a press launch bragging that the Commonwealth is the primary state to be formally named an “age-friendly employer.”
Just ask Arthur Tobin, the clerk Justice of the Peace of the Quincy District Court. He simply bought an $18,600 pay elevate this week, as much as nearly $174,000 a 12 months. Not unhealthy for an previous timer who turns 92 in three weeks.
William Faulkner as soon as stated, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
And within the hackerama that’s Massachusetts, the previous shouldn’t be nonetheless simply gathering a paycheck … it’s getting pay raises.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”