Seeking the TV3 Financial Records
http://medford.patch.com/groups/joe-vigliones-blog/p/governor-martha-coakleys-promise-to-me
Governor Martha Coakley
State House
Beacon Hill
Boston, MA
Dear Governor Coakley:
It
appears you have had a hand in Mayor Michael J. McGlynn forcing the old
Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. out of the community for not being
"community." If so, I thank you for holding to your promise made to me
at Dempsey's when you launched your campaign and, again, at McGlynn's
inauguration in January. I also met (again) with Ed Markey at the
Inauguration and asked you both for our access TV station. You both
shook my hand in our brief meetings, so I take that as an affirmative
that we will have a new access station in Medford.
As I said to you, Madame Governor, how can we help you get elected without an access TV station?
Now
I know you are busy tidying up the AG's office for your transition to
the most powerful seat in Massachusetts, but we need your help again. As
you are a Medford resident you are aware that Stanley Komins left
$100.00 to the little league and he is now on trial for embezzlement.
Interesting that Mr. Komins was in power just about as long as Francis
R. Pilleri, Jr. As you also know, public records requests have been
filed with City Hall, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and with the
Attorney General's office. I intend to bring this to the attention of
the judge in Woburn Superior Court when MCC TV3 thinks they will get a
rubber stamp and all their alleged sins will be absolved without even
the sign of the cross. That ain't gonna happen so long as I'm
breathing.
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So the question to you, Honorable Martha, is -
where are the financial records of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.,
and will you hold the board of directors - Arthur Alan Deluca, Harvey
Alberg, Ronald DeLucia, Francis R. Pilleri, Jr., Daniel Mailhiot, Deric
Dyer, Cornelius Murphy, Jay Ricci, Steve Marra and others accountable to
the cable TV subscribers who funded the entity that Councilor Adam
Knight called "a fiasco."
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It was refreshing to see
Councilor Knight and Councilor Penta at the first meeting of the Cable
TV panel on February 3, 2014. We're expecting Councilor Caraviello,
Councilor Lungo-Koehn and Councilor Marks to show up at a future
meeting. The City Council deserves credit for voting 7-0 again when the
Honorable Jeanne Martin brought the public access issue up again. It
was a healthy debate.
Meeting Minutes and Financial Records, your
Honor. That's what we are looking for from Medford Community
Cablevision, Inc. You see, Madame Attorney General (soon to be Governor
if the polls showing an 11 point lead over Charlie Baker are to be
believed,) rather than show us those records, TV3 appears to have cut a
deal with the Issuing Authority. There's an e mail from Frank Pilleri
saying he will step down if all this "goes away." All what?
---The financial records?
---the meeting minutes?
---the allegations of racism and hate speech being investigated by the police and allegedly sent to the DA's office?
-We
will keep hammering the issue of the financial records until we see why
the document on your site claims a station manager who had a full time
job elsewhere claims 45k or 49K on your site, yet a Boston resident who
was generating programming at TV3 (in violation of their own policies
and procedures) claims that person only received 16K a year. If true,
those in government should look very closely at how the money was
distributed. Who would pay someone close to 50K to show up at 7 PM and
leave at 9 PM, and that's when he wasn't at the City Council being named
in a police report as an alleged person of interest.
The financial records, Governor, and the racism charges that are allegedly pending. The meeting minutes.
There
are a lot of questions Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. does not
want to answer. Oh you will hear them yell and scream "Move on" -
"Forget the past" - "Ignore that man behind the curtain" - but when a
Boston resident said they wanted to collapse the corporation and run off
with the funds, and when you see the financial shambles a board member
and his wife's unprofessional lives are in, it begs the question,
where's the money?
Madame Governor, new public records requests will be in motion to find out just that.
Thank
you for your cooperation in this investigation into a corporation that
had an Agreement with the city to serve the cable TV subscribers and the
public. Thank you, Governor Coakley.