Auto Dealerships Fined $60K For Illegal Donations to Governor Baker, Warren Tollman and 2 Local Candidates

Auto Dealerships Fined $60K For Illegal Donations to Governor Baker, Warren Tollman and 2 Local Candidates

  Braintree-based Daniel J. Quirk Inc. and Quincy Auto Auction Inc. made a $60,000 payment to the state’s general fund to resolve issues concerning prohibited contributions to several candidates, according to a disposition agreement between The Massachusetts Office of Campaign Finance (OCPF) and the businesses. The two affiliated auto dealership companies, owned by Daniel Quirk, […]

Coakley To Pay Fine for Campaign Finance Violations on Her Federal Committee Expenditures

Coakley To Pay Fine for Campaign Finance Violations on Her Federal Committee Expenditures

The Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) has concluded that State Attorney General Martha Coakley’s state campaign committee was not in compliance with the campaign finance laws when her U.S. Senate committee paid for campaign services that should have been paid by the state committee. Under Massachusetts law, federal committees are prohibited from providing […]

Suffolk Register of Probate Patricia Campatelli Pays $10,000 for Campaign Finance Violations, Cannot Recover Personal Expenses

Suffolk Register of Probate Patricia Campatelli Pays $10,000 for Campaign Finance Violations, Cannot Recover Personal Expenses

Suffolk Register of Probate Patricia Campatelli of Boston has paid $10,000 to the state’s general fund to resolve several campaign finance issues, according to a disposition agreement between the candidate and the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF). According to the agreement, the Campatelli Committee did not comply with several aspects of the […]

Looking Back at Four Years of Lantigua Shenanigans – PAYING ATTENTION! with Tom Duggan

Looking Back at Four Years of Lantigua Shenanigans  – PAYING ATTENTION! with Tom Duggan

December, 2013 Right to the bitter end, Lawrence Mayor Willie Lantigua went down swinging as he told reporters on the day he conceded that if he were white, he would be on the cover of Forbes or Money magazine for his financial achievements as mayor. “Those who are not blind of conscience, as I always […]

Springfield City Councilor Timothy Rooke Hit with Campaign Finance Violations

  Springfield City Councilor Timothy Rooke has agreed to pay $5,000 to the state’s general fund for campaign finance violations that include using campaign funds for personal purposes, failing to keep records, and not disclosing certain financial activity, according to a disposition agreement between Rooke and OCPF. Rooke paid $2,000 to the state when the […]

Israel Reyes Lobbied Planning Board for Contributors

Israel Reyes Lobbied Planning Board for Contributors

Planning Board Member is Already Fleecing the System Part 1 Originally published on tommyduggan.com (10-10-03)   PAYING ATTENTION! WITH TOM DUGGAN   Before there was a Valley Patriot (established in 2004) there was tommyduggan.com, a blog before there were blogs, a news webpage before there were news webpages. Long before there was an Eagle Tribune web […]