85-year-old Philip F. Laverriere, who’d been collecting a $144,000 salary as the executive director of the Greater Lawrence Community Action Council, quit after it was revealed he’d been working about 15 hours a week while spending the rest of his time at the Elks Lodge. In his defense, Laverriere said, “It’s not like I wasn’t thinking about work while drinking and playing cards.”
The Cambridge City Council voted to give up its cost of living pay increases. (The part-time position currently pays $70,329.) As of today, no sign from Mother Teresa indicating “Way to go guys!”
A “Framing the Innocent” event was held for Chuck Turner on the eve of his departure for a three-year prison sentence for accepting a bribe from an FBI informant. Due to a scheduling conflict, Turner was unable to attend a larger “Enough Already, Chuck” rally.
To promote revival of its free shipping policy, L.L. Bean is paying the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) to make 10 buses resemble mail-order packages. Passengers riding inside the giant parcels will also be stacked in their seats by UPS deliverymen.
After visiting the Guantanamo Bay prison facility Sen. Scott Brown said he found the camp to be a humane, quality facility. However, he doesn’t feel that taxpayer money should be used to pay for prisoners if they are illegal immigrants.
Let me tell you the story
Of a man named Chuck
On a tragic and fateful day
He put a $1000 bribe in his pocket,
Kissed his career and honor away
Former Boston City councilor Chuck Turner faces the music this week when he’s sentenced on federal corruption charges. In the meantime, The Raging Grannies gave him a sendoff – along with a hacksaw baked in a bran muffin.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he would consider asking his three predecessors — past and future convicted felons, Charlie Flaherty, Tom Finneran, and Sal DiMasi — to skip the Legislature’s 2013 swearing-in ceremony – or at the very least, sit in a stately holding cell.
Convicted former Mass. State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, failed to report thousands of dollars in donations that were intended to pay off her debt to the IRS. After finding out about it the government said, “Please, keep the money; just don’t tell us where you stuffed it.”
A federal judge sentenced Patrice “Ma” Tierney, wife of US Rep. John F. Tierney, to a month in prison and five months house arrest for aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns for her brother, a federal fugitive. A disappointed Congressman Tierney said, “Throughout my career it’s been my goal to bring people together. I just didn’t expect it would be my my wife and Dianne Wilkerson in a prison shower room.”
Prosecutors asked a federal judge to demand ousted Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner return the $1,000 he was convicted of receiving as a bribe. An outraged Turner responded, “I solicited that bribe fair and square!”
Five Mass Parole Board members and other Parole officials were forced to resign. That’s almost as many Probation Dept. officials who are expected to eventually be up for parole.
I just didn’t expect it would be my my wife and Dianne Wilkerson in a prison shower room.
The son of disgraced state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson is contemplating a run for disgraced Boston City Counselor Chuck Turner’s open seat. Soon-to-be-disgraced-if-he-gets-elected Cornell D. Mills pulled papers for the preliminary election. With a criminal past of his own, Mills is on his way to joining the family business – if by family business you mean serving the people or serving time.
When was the last time a defendant (yes, you Chuck Turner) proclaimed he was so anxious to testify, only to engage in an “I don’t remember” fest?
Outside the courthouse, Turner held a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu spiritual guide. Bhagavad Gita is also the Hindu term for “I don’t remember.”
Was it just a coincidence that friends, relatives, and campaign donors of GOP Rep. and treasurer candidate, Karyn Polito received 2/3 of the first 100 low number Red Sox license plates? We’ll find out if she’s elected and 2/3 of her first Megabucks winners are friends, relatives, and campaign donors of Treasurer Polito.
How bad is this year’s field of treasurer candidates? When it comes to honesty, character, and integrity, they’re polling slightly behind an ATM machine.
Two days after filing a defamation suit against his opponent Rep. John Tierney, Republican Bill Hudak dropped the suit. Did this have anything to with Tierney’s wife pleading guilty to helping conceal her brother’s offshore illegal gambling operation? To paraphrase olive oil salesman, Michael Corleone: “Never go against my family.”
85-year-old Philip F. Laverriere, who’d been collecting a $144,000 salary as the executive director of the Greater Lawrence Community Action Council, quit after it was revealed he’d been working about 15 hours a week while spending the rest of his time at the Elks Lodge. In his defense, Laverriere said, “It’s not like I wasn’t thinking about work while drinking and playing cards.”
Bay State Bombast | Ben Alper | 
March 25, 2011 7:39 pm | 
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