"first was reported in a story in yesterday's Boston Herald"
Then WHY am I reading YOU, Globe?
What else are you COVERING UP and IGNORING, huh?
"Menino house repairs scrutinized; City workers renovated family homes" by Donovan Slack and John Drake, Globe Staff | February 25, 2009
City workers performed repairs and renovations worth several thousand dollars to homes owned by Mayor Thomas M. Menino and his family members between 1997 and 2004, Boston building permits show.
The ARROGANCE of POWER never ceases to amaze me. Politicians have NO CONCEPT of what WORK or MONEY is, that much is obvious -- even down to a mayor!
The work places Menino in a delicate position; state conflict-of-interest rules, as interpreted by the State Ethics Commission, in most cases bar public officials from engaging in business dealings with subordinates. Menino said that whatever work he had done on his house was paid in full and performed outside city work hours. In an interview with the Globe yesterday, the mayor said he did not believe he had done anything improper. He was unable to immediately produce documentation of payment.
The KNEE-JERK DENIALS we have come to know and love!!!
Menino said that if he hired city employees to work on his home, it was because he trusted them. "Probably because they're friends of ours," he said. "They moonlight. There's a lot of people who moonlight."
So WHO TALKED, Tom?
A lawyer for the mayor's son, Thomas M. Menino Jr., said he, too, has not been able to locate records of payments to the workers. Work done by Sinagra first was reported in a story in yesterday's Boston Herald....
--more--"And if the Herald (Boston's version of the New York Post) is doing better journalism than the Globe, I don't even know why I am purchasing them, readers. I shouldn't be.
