Prosecutors from Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office questioned two Chelsea Housing Authority employees under oath this week about their political connections to Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray, part of an intensifying criminal investigation into whether the housing agency’s former director illegally turned the workplace into a political machine aimed at helping Murray win election.
The employees, who are maintenance workers, testified that they attended three fund-raisers for Murray, giving $100 each time and meeting the lieutenant governor. One of them, Robert Hamilton, also said that former housing boss Michael E. McLaughlin asked him and other employees to help get out the vote for Murray and Governor Deval Patrick on Election Day in 2010.
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I heard yesterday that "Crash" Murray never did pay for that state vehicle he wrecked on his 100 mph 5 am fact finding mission. And we never did get to see the cell phone records from that morning. Nothing to see here folks, just the great tradition of Democratic state leadership!
When will the indictments come down? Or will this be covered up like so many other matters?
I am so proud of these guys.
I am so proud of these guys.
The state of the State is crony capitalism and corporate welfare and using the Public Office for personal gain. If this is the case with Tim Murray, personal gain, the AG should address this political machine. More disasterous for residents of MA is that ratepayers and taxpayers are required by the Patrick Administration's green laws to acquire unreliable and cost prohibitive wind energy, and to invest in failing renewable business ventures. What is disconcerting is that the CEOs, Presidents, VPs, stockholders, Advisors and Directors of the renewabubbles are Patrick Administration Public Officials. The Founding Chairman of the MA Clean Energy Center--funded by ratepayers, directed millions in CEC funding to Flo-Design, for which he served as Advisor, while serving as Executive Secretary who ushered the green laws that apply to land and sea based wind turbines. As merit is not the driver, we have Evergreen Solar, Beacon Power and Konarka Technologies loan and failures, and the job losses that go with these. The trouble is that this is just the beginning of the green bubble bust cycle in MA. The MA AG should be looking at the $billions we have at risk through the NGrid Cape Wind and NStar contracts. What about the $44 million rate hike by NGrid the day before their contract with Cape Wind was announced. Didn't NGrid contribute thousands to Patrick's campaign? Let's go for the Big Fish. The AG should look at MA renewable energy companies' Advisors, Directors, stockholders VPs, and Presidents awarded 20% of the State's ARRA stimulus funding, $10 million. The $100 campaign contribution is a comparative distraction.
A point of clarification regarding my earlier comment...one company represents $10 million in ARRA stimulus for MA, EnerNOC.
As in:
Forbes
Who is a Fat Cat?
May 14, 2012
Who is the most over paid?"
"The most overpaid executives are at Comverge and EnerNOC, both in absolute millions of dollars, and as a percentage of market capitalization."http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomkonrad/2012/05/14/whos-a-fat-cat/
Massachusetts Green Bubble Alert: EnerNOC
http://bjdurk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/07/10891513-massachusetts-green-bubble-alert-enernoc
Massachusetts Green Bubble Alert
http://bjdurk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10889807-massachusetts-green-bubble-alert-flodesign
People and episodes like this undermine the credibility and importance of government. If one ever wonders why there is a reluctance among tax payers to support tax increases, it is because of the strong possibility that some material percentage of money is skimmed off by operators who enrich themselves at the expense of everyone.