Results tagged “scandal”

Sal DiMasi failed to provide records requested by the State Ethics Committee, which has since filed a motion to force DiMasi's compliance. The requested documents likely relate to payments to DiMasi and cohorts from parties seeking to influence government contracts and legislation. The high-ranked House member apparently has not yet been caught on tape taking money from Cognos and other sources. DiMasi's accountant, Richard Vitale, must have other ways to hide the loot. more ›

Leave it the Boston Globe to get itself embroiled in a sex scandal that didn't even happen in Boston. more ›

...including, possibly, cover-ups. The Globe reports that the medical files of three Boston jakes who had claimed career-ending injuries cannot be found by FBI agents investigating improper disability claims. Samuel Tyler, president of Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a business-funded watchdog group put it drolly, "The suspicious disappearance of the files would seem to reaffirm suspicions that some of the injuries being investigated by the US attorney may not have been legitimate." more ›

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