REPORT: Four Councilors Benefited from Police Contract Vote The state Inspector General’s Office (IG) is an independent state agency that conducts investigations of government agencies and makes recommendations when wrongdoing is found. The IG investigated the process of the City of Methuen’s superior officer’s contract approval that has long been the subject of dispute. The […]
July, 2018 While voting on last year’s Methuen city budget and union contracts there were at least five (of nine) members of the city council who had a conflict of interest because they had immediate family members working for the city. The state’s conflict of interest laws say that elected officials with family members on […]
Murphy was paid privately for work on permit applications and plans submitted to the Conservation Commission; then reviewed those applications and plans as consultant to the Conservation Commission. The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission issued a $10,000 fine against Robert Murphy, a former consultant to the Town of Canton Conservation Commission (ConCom). The Ethics Commission found that […]
By: Tom Duggan, July 31, 2015 The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) has granted a hearing to former members of the Salisbury Board of Health, after Town Manager Harrington fired the entire board for trying to expose corruption, conflicts of interest, fraud, “apparent government waste” and retaliation against them as “whistleblowers”. The suit was filed […]
Violated the Conflict of Interest Law Represented plaintiffs in two lawsuits against the Town of Chelmsford The Ethics Commission’s Enforcement Division today issued an Order to Show Cause (“Order”) alleging that Chelmsford Planning Board (“Board”) member Richard McClure (“McClure”) violated G.L. c. 268A, the conflict of interest law, by representing plaintiffs in two lawsuits […]