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Former state AG goes to aid of ex-Chelsea housing chief

Harshbarger angers Patrick with deal offer

By Andrea Estes and Sean P. Murphy

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 12, 2011

Former Massachusetts Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger, who has long positioned himself as a champion of honest and open government, has emerged as an unlikely ally of Michael E. McLaughlin, the former Chelsea Housing Authority executive director, who abruptly quit after his $360,000 annual compensation was revealed.

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