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Page A-10 Boston Globe. Hey Martha. What about TV3????
Carmen-Not-David Ortiz critics are riding to Marty Walsh’s defense
Martha Coakley — a former attorney general who mostly steered away from political corruption cases while in office — is openly challenging Ortiz’s pursuit of City Hall wrongdoing. “You’d like to think the focus would be on those organizations like human trafficking rings, drug smuggling rings, the kind of organizations that in and of themselves represent a threat to safety, public safety,” Coakley told the Huffington Post. Added Coakley: Ortiz’s bosses at the US Department of Justice should ask, “What is the focus of this? And not only what are you choosing to investigate and indict, but how are you handling that process in terms of your obligations as prosecutors — and fairness?”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/06/ortiz-critics-are-riding-marty-walsh-defense/j8UJ4MdxvxCAIbrL7BNmoN/story.html
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It’s time for Mayor Walsh to come clean
But the conduct of officials who work for him is the mayor’s responsibility. So is safeguarding the reputation of the City of Boston, which could be hurt by a protracted federal investigation. Brissette’s indictment called into question the integrity of Boston’s permitting under Walsh. The best way for the mayor to repair that impression would be to hold his staff accountable and level with the voters about who at City Hall knew what, and when.
