JUST PLAIN SICK.
DICKIE LEBERT, STEPHEN LEBERT, JIMMY LEE, SHAWN HUGHES, SHAWN NORTON, GERALD HUDSON, MIGUEL LOPEZ, JOSEPH BANGS, THOMAS K. DOHERTY, GERRY CLEMENTE...oh, but let's go after a gay blogger who got viciously assaulted by an ex-football player who ALLEGEDLY was running around yelling that Stephanie Burke would win the election in June, five months before the election.
EDWARD P. FINN ALLEGEDLY TOLD ROBERT CAPPUCCI THAT BURKE WAS GOING TO WIN IN JUNE OF 2015.
THE FBI WAS ALERTED IN JULY OF 2015 THAT THE MEDFORD ELECTION WOULD BE STOLEN.
DOHERTY v. RETIREMENT BOARD OF MEDFORDA
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts,Middlesex.
Thomas K. DOHERTY v. RETIREMENT BOARD OF MEDFORD.
No. SJC-07325.
Decided: June 05, 1997
Before WILKINS, C.J., and LYNCH, O'CONNOR, FRIED and MARSHALL, JJ. John A. Baccari, Reading, for plaintiff. Nicholas Poser, Boston, for defendant.
In a hearing before the retirement board of Medford (board), the plaintiff was found guilty of misappropriating funds from the city of Medford, pursuant to G.L. c. 32, § 15(1), thereby losing his entitlement to recover retirement deductions accumulated during his years as a police officer. Both the District Court and the Superior Court judges upheld this decision. Doherty claims that the board's decision should be reviewed pursuant to a writ of mandamus; the board proceedings improperly deprived him of his right to a jury trial; the board's decision was unsupported by the evidence; and his actions did not constitute a misappropriation of funds. We transferred the appeal on our own motion and we affirm.
Thomas K. Doherty was a police officer for the city of Medford from May 22, 1966, until September 4, 1985, when he was terminated following his conviction of two felonies in August, 1985. Doherty was sentenced to a term of from eighteen to twenty years for armed assault with intent to murder a former Metropolitan District Commission police officer, Joseph Bangs. See Commonwealth v. Doherty, 23 Mass.App.Ct. 633, 504 N.E.2d 681 (1987). While in prison, Doherty was tried as a codefendant in a Federal case involving multiple counts of conspiracy and RICO 1 violations arising out of a scheme (“Examscam”) in which police officers stole and sold advance copies of police entrance and promotional examinations along with their answers.2 Doherty was convicted on one count of general conspiracy and eleven counts of RICO violations. See United States v. Doherty, 867 F.2d 47, 52 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 492 U.S. 918, 109 S.Ct. 3243, 106 L.Ed.2d 590 (1989).