"Ex-Chelsea housing chief to plead guilty to additional charges" by Sean P. Murphy | Globe staff May 09, 2014
Michael E. McLaughlin, the former Chelsea Housing Authority executive director now serving a three-year federal prison sentence, is expected to plead guilty to additional corruption charges on Monday and be sentenced to an additional year in prison.
McLaughlin, 68, began serving his sentence in September after pleading guilty to filing false reports to state and federal regulators to conceal his inflated $360,000 annual salary for running the small housing agency.
In documents filed Friday in US District Court in Boston, McLaughlin indicated he will also plead guilty to charges he conspired to rig federal housing inspections of apartments operated by his authority so the agency would get high marks, even though the apartments overall were poorly maintained.
“The whole Mike McLaughlin saga has been disturbing and has hurt the people the housing authority is intended to serve,” said Thomas K. Standish, who became chairman of the Chelsea Housing Authority’s board of commissioners after McLaughlin was forced to resign in 2011.
“But at least this represents a cleansing that allows us to go forward with new safeguards and better management,” he said....
It was all a joke, you know.
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Related: Judge Shows Mercy For McLaughlin
He got to keep his pension, poor guy.
"Disgraced Chelsea housing official pleads guilty to new charge; McLaughlin was tipped off to inspections" by Sean P. Murphy | Globe staff May 12, 2014
Michael E. McLaughlin, the former Chelsea Housing Authority executive director serving a three-year federal prison sentence, pleaded guilty Monday to additional corruption charges, but sentencing was delayed until at least next month.
McLaughlin, who was led in and out of US District Court in handcuffs and a green prison jumper by US marshals, said little during the 15-minute hearing before Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, beyond acknowledging that he conspired to defraud the government by rigging housing inspections.
In attendance were about a dozen Chelsea Housing Authority tenants, who said they were bearing witness to the damage McLaughlin did to the authority, which provides housing to low-income people and elders on fixed incomes.
According to Assistant US Attorney S. Theodore Merritt, McLaughlin, 68, was tipped off in advance about which apartments would be inspected, allowing him to clean up those units before the inspections.
The inspections were supposed to be done on randomly selected units.
The scheme helped the Housing Authority win “high performer” designation from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, a status that provides additional funding and less regulatory oversight.
Conspiracy charges are pending against two others: former Chelsea housing assistant executive director James H. Fitzpatrick and Bernard Morosco, a consultant.
McLaughlin pleaded guilty last year to filing false reports to conceal his inflated $360,000 annual salary for running the small housing agency.
He was forced to resign in 2011 following the disclosure in The Boston Globe of his salary.
McLaughlin is due in court June 20 for sentencing.
He is currently at the federal penetentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., according to information from the US Bureau of Prisons.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE: Jailed housing official admits illegal fund-raising for Murray
I'm not spending any more time on it.
I hope you can handle this next article:
"Chelsea handler to host ‘late night style’ talk show on Netflix" New York Times Syndicate June 20, 2014
A late-night Netflix talk show? That’s what the company unveiled Thursday as part of a deal with Chelsea Handler, the star who is soon to exit from the E! cable network.
Netflix, the subscription streaming video service, has so far posted original series only in their entirety, not day by day or even week by week.
But Handler, a comic who has been public about seeking a new and different place after seven years at E!, has stood out as the only female host in the otherwise male-dominated world of late night.
Netflix’s multiyear deal with Handler centers on the new talk show, though it can’t be specifically called a late-night show because it will presumably be available at any time on Netflix.
The as-yet-untitled show will not start for more than a year, Netflix said. Handler will end her E! program, “Chelsea Lately,” on Aug. 26.
After Handler posted a picture of herself with a CBS programming book on her lap, labeling it a “business meeting,” CBS interpreted that as public relations designed to induce the network to include her among the candidates to succeed Craig Ferguson. Two days later, on Ellen DeGeneres’ daytime show, Handler said she’d never work for CBS because they would try to rein her in.
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I've heard the name but have no idea who she is.
Also see: Man arrested after woman found beaten in Chelsea
