Public Charities Division
Attorney General Martha Coakley
Boston Massachusetts
Dear Public Charities Division:
Mayor McGlynn announced at a Comcast Press Conference on Monday, December 8th that he will announce a new access TV station at an additional press conference to be held next week.
McGlynn said this on camera, with Comcast's Tim Kelly and Sr. VP of local media content, Sheila Willard present, along with City Councilor Rick Caraviello, Allison Goldsberry, myself and other witnesses at the small (9 people in attendance or so) press conference in McGlynn's office at Medford City Hall.
Mayor McGlynn was negligent and irresponsible in his leadership position of being the oversight of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., paying $3900.00 for a retired judge (see her quote below) and about 10K for an audit, yet McGlynn chose not to tell the public funding his "investigation" but to meet with MCC TV3 at two different pizza parlors, not taking notes, and a public records request filed for the content of those essential public meetings turned up nothing.
Didn't Mayor Michael J. McGlynn violate the open meeting law by meeting with MCC secretly at Regina's Pizza and Bocelli's ?
Exhibit A
BREAKING NEWS: McGlynn holds meetings with TV3 ...
www.wickedlocal.com/.../BREAKING-NEWS-McGly... - Traduire cette page
18 août 2009 - Mayor Michael J. McGlynn today confirmed he had met with TV3 Board of Directors President Frank ... 18 at Pizzeria Regina at Station Landing.
THE MEDFORD TRANSCRIPT IS MCGLYNN'S OWN alleged PERSONAL MOUTHPIECE, NOT OBJECTIVE REPORTING BUT ISSUING MCGLYNN
PROPAGANDA.
SOME PROOF?
---a previous press conference at City Hall had the Mayor's staff locking me out until Chief Gilberti was kind enough to walk me in.
---Yesterday, December 8, 2014, McGlynn called for the Press Conference at 10:30, Alex Ruppenthal from the Medford Transcript was late and phoned the Mayor's secretary. McGlynn then held up the conference, inconvenienced those in attendance, until Alex Ruppenthal showed up at 10:40. I said to Alex "You're the star of the show."
So one press conference attempted to lock out a legitimate reporter not allegedly "owned" by the Mayor
A PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST OBTAINED THE AMOUNT OF MONEY CITY HALL PAYS THE TRANSCRIPT FOR LEGAL NOTICES AND OTHER ADVERTISING, A PAPER DEPENDENT UPON CITY HALL MONIES, (NOTE: THE PARENT COMPANY, GATEHOUSE MEDIA, WAS AT ONE TIME IN BANKRUPTY) REVEALED HOW MUCH MONEY THAT IS.
INSIDE MEDORD IS OWNED BY A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER PAID WITH P/E/G ACCESS TV MONIES, Allison Goldsberry, present at the press conference and not teaching at the school on a school day. She too does the bidding of the Mayor, though she is paid with monies cable subscribers assume are being used for P/E/G access.
NELL COAKLEY, THE EDITOR, IS IN THIS E MAIL and she is welcome to respond, but I caution Editor Coakley, when I was in her office she blurted out that her contact at City Hall might not be a woman (she was hinting it was the Mayor himself giving her "scoops") and she said to me "If you want to do business in this city..." her voice trailing off, clearly saying she marches to the Mayor's drum beat. That's important for the Division of Public Charities to hear as McGlynn has allowed the wrongful conduct at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. to fest for years -
---most notably - Gary Zxxxxxx shaking down politicians for money, while he was on the board of directors, giving them lavish videos with tons of airtime - in violation of the Internal Revenue Code - (Zxxxxx was recently arrested twice on unrelated matters, though he allegedly used MCC equipment and Comcast's Project Open Voice to publish the alleged "false bomb threat" that he was arrested for 9/4/13; the second arrest was 7/8/14; allegedly, McGlynn met with Zxxxxxi at a third "pizza pow wow" and allegedly- a Comcast representative was there.
Comcast needs to be aware that a former board member of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. allegedly utilized TV3 equipment to allegedly commit an act that led to his arrest. The police have even more chilling evidence that was reported by a local resident and handed over to the police, but it is an "ongoing investigation" so further details are not going to be given...at this time (at least until the police give me permission to do so.)
So the board of directors of TV3 had a member who accepted monies from politicians, including after he left the board but remained the station's "webmaster" and also - here's the scary aspect of this - Zxxxxxxi engaged in harassment of the budget director when she was on the City Council, and harassment of three other councilors, in violation of the Internal Revenue Code
So McGlynn worked with an individual who was seemingly tilting elections by attacking politicians he didn't like on camera, and endorsing those that paid him, allegedly while he was a board member of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.
In conclusion: How can the citizens make an agreement with Mayor McGynn, clearly conflicted when it took him decades to remove the inappropriate members of the TV3 board (ask the Mayor why his uncle, Gene McGillicuddy, had to allegedly replace TV3 president Frank Pilleri allegedly for 2 years - allegedly over "barter bucks," "free memberships for life" and other practices, and why McGlynn allowed Pilleri back in.
Pilleri claims on his LINKED IN that he was president for 25 years. So much for term limits; but is that a lie on Pilleri's resume? Didn't McGlynn remove Pilleri from being president for 2 years for the above referenced alleged inurement, another possible alleged violation of the Internal Revenue Code
Recently Stanley Komins at West Medford Hillside Little League was sentenced to prison (November 21, 2014) but it only happened allegedly when the new board of directors questioned him about practices that may have went on for 30 years. Pilleri's 25 years is almost the same amount of time, and Pilleri has thumbed his nose at the community he was supposed to serve; thumbed his nose at the Mayor, and led to the closure of the access station all together, even though a retired judge had determined it was a "private" MCC access, and not public access.
That was something the Mayor was aware of, and McGlynn chose to work with the offenders rather than give the access tv station to the community, as was promised in 2007, for an election City Hall told us would happen in 2008, but Frank Pilleri rejected that election, used about 100k (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) to litigate against citizens and the city, and no government oversight stepped in.
The attorney who made a bundle on it was the Mayor's cousin by marriage.
Mayor McGlynn was totally conflicted.
SO, the citizens are asking the Division of Public Charities if - rather than dissolve Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., the Division hand the corporation over to a new board of directors with NONE OF THE PREVIOUS REGIME involved; and that the Division scrutinize former board members Deric Dyer, Jay Ricci, Daniel Ryan Mailhiot and current members Frank Pilleri, Harvey Alberg, Connie Murphy, Arthur Alan Deluca, Ronald DeLucia, and get the meeting minutes, financial records, and look into the activities of the last 2 station managers and the webmaster.
I will be speaking at the Medford City Council tonight about the community taking over the old corporation.
The Mayor should comply with our request (though he won't; we may have to litigate) McGlynn now controlling all the assets of the station (though allegedly there are MCC individuals who may still have cameras or computer programs or other assets of the city; citizens aren't clear on what the city has in its inventory and what it doesn't have)
The citizens can have a new board of directors ready to reopen Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. The Division of Public Charities should endorse this request, we can then demand the books and financial records, keep the above referenced individuals out of access TV for the next ten years so that they don't sabotage or damage it any further, and Medford citizens will have the access TV they pay for on a monthly basis.
McGlynn, the Mayor, enjoys his opponents not having time on cable tv to run against him. McGlynn's practices tilt the elections in his favor, one reason an unpopular Mayor gets in year after year.
McGlynn finds the First Amendment repugnant; he has dragged his feet on access TV. The Division has an obligation to the Medford community - despite McGlynn's close ties to the current Attorney General, Martha Coakley, who assured me she was looking into the situation when I asked her to open access before her race for governor, which Ms. Coakley lost.
Had she made good on her promise she might be Governor today. It would've have been a nice touchy/feely news story for the media. But alas, I've been fighting the good fight for 12 years now. We have earned our TV station that was supposed to be a right, not a privilege.
I look forward to speaking with your office about a new board of directors taking over Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. so that we can bring our findings to law enforcement, if necessary
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Warm Regards,
Community Media Medford.com
For those of you interested in the Public Access TV Situation in Medford, Mass. read on:
"I'm here to make sure that this TV station is the best it can be for
ourselves and for our children," said
the Honorable Judge Marie O.Jackson-Thompson (retired)
ourselves and for our children," said
the Honorable Judge Marie O.Jackson-Thompson (retired)
Handy Links!
TV3 Equipment Article on Boston.com
http://tinyurl.com/voiceattv3
