Saugus woman gets five years for fraud by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, January 11, 2013
A former Saugus library aide, declared a psychopath by a Harvard psychologist, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for stealing nearly $1 million in library and charity funds to pay her mortgage and dental bills and purchase jewelry and hotel stays.
WTF? That's it?
Hand-typed because Globe scrubbed it -- and you will see why:
"One of society's responsibilities is to pay for our crimes," US District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock said in handing out the sentence as Linda E. Duffy, 66, looked on, looking stoic. "As a society, we have an obligation to say to ourselves, and those who might consider this, that there's a very serious sentence imposed for something like this."
Unless you are a Wall Street banker.
She was sentenced after library officials said they had worked hard to save the library from closure, only to learn that Duffy had been stealing from them all along....
Can you see why I cop the antitax attitude up here, dear readers? We don't need higher taxes to pay money junkie banksters and feed pathological political appetites in a state awash in corruption.
In September, Duffy pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud, in diverting more than $500,000 in library funds to a separate bank account she created and using the money for her own gain.
She also cheated a GE Foundation program, a charitable arm of General Electric Co. that matched its employees' donations to nonprofits, by pretending to be an employee who donated to the library and encouraging the foundation to do the same. She then diverted those funds, more than $400,000, to her account.
That's where she $lipped up.
Related: GE paid(?) "no federal tax bill last year, even though it turned a $14.2 billion profit,"and then got a $3.2 billion refund courtesy of the American taxpayer who is facing social service cuts and austerity.
Yeah, that's BILLION with a B!
Looks like GE cheated you out of a whole lot more, taxpayers.
Woodlock ordered Duffy to pay $965,742 in restitution, and a GE Foundation representative said the company wants its funds to be returned to the library, as intended.
It was Duffy's second conviction in federal court. In the early 1990s, she served 21 months in federal prison for check fraud at a Boston insurance company where she worked.
??????
I'm wondering how she got the library job, aren't you?
Her lawyer, Frederick W. Riley, sought mercy from Woodlock, saying she has a mental illness.
She $ure doe$!
He said, as an example, that Duffy had a romantic affair years ago and years later, led the man falsely into believing she gave birth to twins.
Either mentally ill or a manipulative bitch.
He really didn't offer that up as an excuse, did he? He surely didn't think that would win overwhelming sympathy?
Assistant US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling told Woodlock that Duffy has been diagnosed as an "incurable psychopath, unlikely to rehab," who poses a danger to the public.
Then put her to death.
She stole at the worst time, he said, as the library was struggling for funds. "Ms. Duffy sucked the library dry of funds as the library was struggling to keep the lights on."
What do you get for doing that to a nation?
And is it just me, or is there an implication in there that there is a good time to steal?
Also see: Linda Duffy of Saugus sentenced to five years in prison
Related: Woman pleads guilty to stealing funds from library
Meanwhile, over at the high school:
"Saugus High principal placed on leave for audit" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, January 10, 2013
Maybe he had enough of the workaday world, hit the open road, and never looked back. Maybe it was just the right time for a long vacation.
Whatever the reason, Joseph Diorio, the principal of Saugus High School, was conspicuously absent since his last appearance at school three weeks ago. And no one would say why.
As rumors flew, students posted “Missing” fliers with his picture around town, quipping that he had “exceeded his five unexcused absences.”
Messages with the hashtag #FindDiorio bounced across Twitter.
When school resumed from vacation last week, officials said that while Diorio was not exactly missing, they had not heard from him since he left for a Florida vacation and did not know when he would return. The mystery deepened, speculation swirled.
On Wednesday, school officials finally broke their silence....
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Related: ’Missing’ principal defends his record
