I hope state Auditor Diana DiZoglio might be digging lots deeper into Massport’s shady historical past of payoffs to their hack staff than this single $1.375-million “settlement” from 2022.
Taxpayers must learn about every part that’s gone down throughout state authorities. However there was one nearly-forgotten Massport sweetheart deal that got here to thoughts at DiZoglio’s press convention Wednesday.
Keep in mind disgraced former US lawyer Rachael Rollins?
Earlier than she was pressured to resign one step forward of a posse, she labored briefly at Massport in 2015.
Simply lengthy sufficient to snare a $175,000 severance fee, and a further $45,000 to attend an eight-month program at Harvard Enterprise College.
The kiss included $154,500 in “wage continuation funds,” $18,334 for “unused” trip time and $2,000 in well being advantages.
When she ran efficiently for district lawyer of Suffolk County in 2018, no person knew something about this sweetheart deal. The story got here out as she was nominated for US lawyer, a job she was confirmed for by the US Senate on a 51-50 vote, with the tie damaged by one other DEI stalwart, then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The story of Rollins’ hush-hush deal was damaged by Commonwealth Journal in 2021:
“Underneath the eight-page severance settlement, Rollins waived all her rights to sue Massport for a laundry listing of issues, together with for more cash, race discrimination, and age discrimination.
“The settlement additionally says that Massport agrees that its senior executives and its board members ‘won’t make any disparaging or derogatory statements in public or personal concerning Ms. Rollins, her employment, or the termination of her employment with Massport.’”
Massport issued a obscure assertion on the time the story broke, saying “an settlement was reached with Rachael to develop into out there as an advisor to the brand new management….”
An advisor. You understand, sort of like the way in which Monica Tibbits-Nutt, the disgraced DEI secretary of transportation, was stored on the payroll for a number of months final yr after the $900-million Plazagate scandal blew up.
As an “advisor.”
After all Rachael Rollins has been taken care of after her humiliating departure from the Justice Division. She was handed a comfort job at Roxbury Neighborhood School for $109,852 a yr. Any port in a storm…
This type of stuff is happening, clearly, throughout the whole hackerama.
At her press convention, DiZoglio talked about 263 settlement agreements throughout 21 state businesses, totaling roughly $6.8 million handed out in public funds.
The state’s third-rate faculties, er universities, accounted for lots of the stonewalling. Are you stunned? These are the identical colleges the place the presidents are making lots of of hundreds a yr, and on the finish, earlier than their six-figure pensions kick in, they accumulate one other few hundred grand for all that “unused” trip time.
Wink wink nudge nudge.
The settlements are only a variation on all the opposite rackets the hacks have occurring.
What started as an try by DiZoglio to search out out about sexual harassment by state politicians is clearly morphing right into a a lot bigger scandal. When LaMar Prepare dinner is the template for state hiring insurance policies, you’re going to finish up with drawback staff, which is why DiZoglio introduced up his identify Wednesday.
So moderately than have a bunch of embarrassing depositions each time a LaMar Prepare dinner will get lugged, they simply shovel a bunch of cash at them. And I’m positive that if DiZoglio ever will get full disclosure – uncertain, to make sure – we’ll discover out that plenty of these hacks have been transferring from one state company to a different, pulling the identical settlement rip-off repeatedly.
Couldn’t get away with it within the Dreaded Non-public Sector, the place managers are required to imagine at the least some duty for his or her misdeeds. However Massachusetts is a one-party state, corrupt prime to backside. And everybody’s within the satchel, together with regime-controlled media.
Take a look at yesterday’s headlines about Gov. Maura Healey offering $180 million in “reduction” for hard-pressed Massachusetts utility ratepayers.
How far down did the fluffers point out that this alleged “reduction” is merely a deferral of the utilities’ payments till later within the yr?
In 2024, 72% of Massachusetts voters stated they needed an audit of the Legislature’s books. The Legislature gave them the center finger. The judiciary, whose pay is managed by the Legislature, did the identical.
It’s the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the foundations.
I hope DiZoglio additionally takes take a look at the state treasurer’s workplace, all the way in which again to Tim Cahill’s tenure.
Right here’s the lead of an Related Press story from 2005 about some severance agreements within the Treasurer’s workplace:
“State Treasurer Timothy Cahill has entered into severance and confidentiality agreements with seven former staff – together with two girls who had been his most up-to-date communications administrators –since taking workplace in 2003.”
Of the 2 girls, the wire service added:
“Each left with none formal discover to the press corps, with whom they dealt commonly, and with none acknowledgment from the workplace.”
Odd, isn’t it, how some tales appear to get a lot extra consideration than others? Often relying upon social gathering affiliation.
After all, media fluffers are inclined to have the identical sort of proclivities the hack politicians do. Keep in mind when the Globe was convulsed with tales about sexual harassment, and the truth that among the male editors allegedly maintained an inventory of sure younger feminine interns, ranking them on a “bleepability” scale?
Did any of these alleged victims get settlements, or did they simply go into totally different strains of labor?
We’d all just like the solutions to those questions, however don’t maintain your breath. We’ll discover out about these secret payoffs about the identical time Maura Healey delivers some actual reduction to the utility ratepayers of Massachusetts.
Which is to say, by no means.
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