US Representative John F. Tierney’s wife was receiving funds from her fugitive brother as far back as the early 1990s, when Patrice Tierney was going through a divorce and John Tierney was her divorce attorney.
According to records recently reviewed by The Boston Globe, Patrice Tierney’s brother, Robert Eremian, was covering her living expenses during her divorce, including $7,000 of John Tierney’s legal fee, at a time when Eremian was under federal investigation for running a sports betting business from his Lynnfield home.
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If John Tierney gets re-elected we have some real problems in this state.
If Tierney gets re-elected we have some REAL problems? Are you serious? The Globe wants us to elect Elizabeth Warren (who comes from Oklahoma for god's sake) to represent us in congress and you think re-electing Tierney is a problem? Time to think for a change if you have any brains at all.
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People with Tierney lawn signs should be embarassed but I'm afraid they aren't. That's whats wrong with people in this state.
It is hard to figure out what sort of unholy fever has infected the Globe when it comes to John Tierney. Here is this decent, hardworking public servant who, after having been throughly scrutinized by the US Attorney's office, has never been accused of a single instance of criminal conduct or wrongdoing. True, he has been accused of supporting single-payer health reform. It can't be denied that he defended GE workers when their jobs were threatened. He has been shown on film advocating for urban schools and job retraining for his constituents who, through no fault of their own, were thrown out of work. There are documents that reveal his ties to Neighborhood Health Centers and programs for women, infants and children. But all the Globe seems interested in is the tawdry behavior of his slime toad brothers-in-law, with the subtext question, "Why didn't he deflect the dirt we and Tisei are thowing at him by just ditching his wife years ago?"
The Congressman's wife must be above reproach, it seems, while his Republican opponent, who claims to come from a Catholic family, lives openly and lasciviously in sin with his common law partner without the benefit of marriage. Does he still take holy communion? The ironies here are delicious. Tierney's main problem is his love for and loyalty to his wife. God bless him. My wife and I have supported each other through difficult times. I'm glad the Globe wasn't hovering over us. Next thing we know Howie Carr will be joining the Globe staff.
Wow we move from felony money laudering / tax evasion crimes to holy communion..Looks like the Tierney public relations consultants are running on fumes...Live in sin? How old are you?...1000?...As they say in baseball, "time to make a change".
Tierney has NEVER been accused of felony money laundering.
Tierney has NEVER been accused of tax evasion.
So let's talk about sin.
It is the Catholic Bishop's judgement that homosexuality is "disordered" not mine and some Bishops, throwing around their weight, threaten to prevent Democrats from taking communion on political grounds. Why not Republicans? Tisei says he comes from a strong Catholic background. Fine. But wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Because I am an openly gay man who is not celibate, and thus in the Bishops' eyes a serial and unrepentant sinner, I have left the Catholic Church and no longer receive communion." That would be a little more honest. But then he should go on to say "Even though I have the ability to make my partner an 'honest man' and marry him, I have chosen not to." Now, what kind of example is THAT to be setting for our children. It seems almost French...and you know how Republican patriots feel about the French. Does Rush Limbaugh know about this?
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Didn't Tierney stay away from the courtroom while was on trial? Does that sound like love and loyalty? No, it sounds like a craven politician trying to protect his own skin.
No he did not stay away from the courtroom. That is factually untrue.
Today's Boston Globe story about John and PatriceTierney was unconscionable, tawdry journalism. It does not qualify as news, except to throw dirt at the Congressman. The fact that twenty years ago his wife borrowed and repaid a loan from one of her brothers, some of which was used to pay her lawyer's fee, has nothing to do with her lawyer, who happened to be John Tierney. Neither these details nor anything else in the story that the Globe has given thousands of lines to replay has shown that Congressman Tierney knew of, of should have known of the illegal activities of his brothers in law. This is shabby to the point of raising suspicion about the motives of the reporter and/or the editors who approved the story, and unjustiably assassinates the character of the best Congressman I have observed in nearly fifty years. Is the Globe ombudsman paying attention?
I read the story. Where did she get the money to repay the loan?
Kudos to the Globe for keeping on this story. It seems someone else is guilty of willful blindness here.
If the citizens of MA re elect John Tierney, they will cement the notion the nation has that we are a blatantly partisan group who cares not who we vote in as long as they're democrats.
It's time for John Tierney to go. It is simply not believable that he had no knowledge of his brother-in-laws activities.