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State suspends pension for McDonough over ‘no-show job’

By Andrea Estes

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 23, 2012

The Massachusetts Retirement Board today suspended the $31,770 a year state pension to lobbyist Richard W. McDonough, saying that there was “no credible evidence” that he had done fulltime public work while he was listed as the public relations director at the scandal-plagued Merrimack Special Education Collaborative.

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