I hope state Auditor Diana DiZoglio will probably be digging rather a lot deeper into Massport’s shady historical past of payoffs to their hack workers than this single $1.375-million “settlement” from 2022.
Taxpayers have to find out about every thing 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.
Bear in mind disgraced former US lawyer Rachael Rollins?
Earlier than she was compelled to resign one step forward of a posse, she labored briefly at Massport in 2015.
Simply lengthy sufficient to snare a $175,000 severance cost, and a further $45,000 to attend an eight-month program at Harvard Enterprise Faculty.
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 one 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 checklist of issues, together with for extra money, 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 imprecise assertion on the time the story broke, saying “an settlement was reached with Rachael to change into out there as an advisor to the brand new management….”
An advisor. You already know, sort of like the best way Monica Tibbits-Nutt, the disgraced DEI secretary of transportation, was stored on the payroll for a couple of months final 12 months 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 Group School for $109,852 a 12 months. Any port in a storm…
This sort 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 schools, er universities, accounted for lots of the stonewalling. Are you shocked? These are the identical colleges the place the presidents are making lots of of hundreds a 12 months, and on the finish, earlier than their six-figure pensions kick in, they gather 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 seek out out about sexual harassment by state politicians is clearly morphing right into a a lot bigger scandal. When LaMar Cook dinner is the template for state hiring insurance policies, you’re going to finish up with downside workers, which is why DiZoglio introduced up his title Wednesday.
So somewhat than have a bunch of embarrassing depositions every time a LaMar Cook dinner will get lugged, they only shovel a bunch of cash at them. And I’m certain that if DiZoglio ever will get full disclosure – uncertain, to make sure – we’ll discover out that a whole lot of these hacks have been shifting from one state company to a different, pulling the identical settlement rip-off many times.
Couldn’t get away with it within the Dreaded Non-public Sector, the place managers are required to imagine at the least some accountability for his or her misdeeds. However Massachusetts is a one-party state, corrupt high 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 “aid” for hard-pressed Massachusetts utility ratepayers.
How far down did the fluffers point out that this alleged “aid” is merely a deferral of the utilities’ payments till later within the 12 months?
In 2024, 72% of Massachusetts voters mentioned they wished 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 principles.
I hope DiZoglio additionally takes a very good take a look at the state treasurer’s workplace, all the best way 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 workers – together with two girls who have 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 repeatedly, and with none acknowledgment from the workplace.”
Odd, isn’t it, how some tales appear to get a lot extra consideration than others? Normally relying upon get together affiliation.
After all, media fluffers are likely to have the identical sort of proclivities the hack politicians do. Bear in mind when the Globe was convulsed with tales about sexual harassment, and the truth that a few of the male editors allegedly maintained a listing of sure younger feminine interns, score them on a “bleepability” scale?
Did any of these alleged victims get settlements, or did they only 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 aid to the utility ratepayers of Massachusetts.
Which is to say, by no means.
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