Keeping supporting one-party rule Massachusetts voters. This is exactly the sort of behavior you ask for.

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. How many other state employees are ripping off the taxpayer, now wonder we're broke.

The MA government has many practices in common with the Mafia. One of these "practices" is the "referring" of relatives and friends for government jobs. DeLeo and his group are proud of it and say they see nothing wrong with it. Do they really think those hiring don't feel any "pressure"? Of course not, but they can always cover themselves, as in this case with the well worn phrase "we never told anyone to hire our referral". Clearly an unethical and unprofessional practice it causes huge problems, just look at the probation scandal, and appointments made at Massport and a certain hijacking a few years back...

Interesting, the headline is a 60k job but the article notes it was actually 65K. Why not print the higher amount initially? Note how brazen this was; he published his corruption on Facebook. And why not? In this state what was his probability of being caught? Would he ever have been caught had his father's flagrant corruption not be revealed by the Globe (thank you Globe)? Like the Boston public works employees who never showed up, how many of these "employees" are there in state and city positions? In one respect, its probably a task for the Globe to pick which ones to reveal, the most egregious corruption or on some other factor? Publishing these stories is a huge public service. Nice that the Globe has apparently rediscovered part of its mission is to inform the public of public sector abuse and corruption (even if it reflects poorly on government in general). Keep this up and you'll keep and likely grow subscriptions.