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3:09 pm Sunday August 5, 2018
URGENT: Intentional Ethical Lapse by Adam Knight Medford City Councilor? in vote for City Clerk, his former employee
Edward P. Finn
City Clerk
Medford City Hall
Medford MA 02155
To Outgoing City Clerk Ed Finn:
Perhaps Mr. Knight and his known associates are innocent. The intent of this letter is not to judge, but to open an investigation.
Could you kindly have Adam Knight AMEND his "Disclosure of Appearance of Conflict of Interest" form?
1)Mr. Knight fails to name the man he hired for his 2017 campaign for city council, Sean J. Fitzgerald, to be city clerk.
2)Doesn't Mr. Knight need something from the State Ethics Commission allowing him to vote for one of his own former employees for such an important position, especially since you, Mr. Finn, held the position for 2 decades or so? Pretty important job to be in the hands of Adam Knight, who harassed a woman from the military when she was speaking about Medford history one night at the city council. Not the only person Knight has harassed.
3)Why did Knight allegedly vote on July 17 (see document attached) when he only filed on July 25th, 8 days later? See time stamp from city clerk and Knight's signature on the July 25th document.
4)I submit that Knight intentionally failed to WRITE the proper information (name of Sean J Fitzgerald, etc.) and that Knight allegedly lobbied George Scarpelli and Frederick N. Dello Russo, Jr. and that you, Mr. Finn, should have been on the ball for the money paid you annually to ferret out this allegedly unscrupulous behavior (unless you were in on it, allegedly, which would not be a stretch given your bad history, Mr. Finn, of misdeeds and misconduct) and one must wonder if this rises to the level of a conspiracy.
Given these four points, Adam Knight must clarify who worked for him, why he should be able to vote for a person who he had previously hired for his 2017 campaign, and why there is no "permission slip," so to speak, from the State Ethics Commission or some similar government oversight body for Mr. Knight to vote, other than Mr. Knight granting himself permission.
Where is the oversight?
Were you asleep on the job again, Mr. Finn? And - given your 20 years in the office of city clerk, was that oversight allegedly intentional?
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
POLITICO
March 1, 2018 Fitzgerald worked for Jay Kaufman
HAPPY BIRTHDAY -- to Watertown state Rep. John Lawn, state Rep. Jay Kaufman's chief of staff, Sean Fitzgerald (a rare leap year birthday-er), and Hannah Klain, a student at Harvard Law and a Hillary alum.
ALLEGATION OF CONSPIRACY (definitions from the web)
"a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons"
the action of plotting or conspiring.
"they were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"
synonyms: | plotting, collusion, intrigue, connivance, machination, collaboration;
treason
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A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors. Conspiracy theories often produce hypotheses that contradict the prevailing understanding of history or simple facts. The term is often a derogatory one
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This is a MASSIVE conflict of interest, in my opinion, since you, current city clerk Finn, have engaged in censorship allegedly on at least two citizens vis-a-vis your "editing" petitions to the city council altering information that citizens - who pay your salary - want on the public record; not to mention the fact that you physically attacked a journalist on or about June 16, 2015 - the same week that you allegedly told a Republican local politician that Stephanie Burke would "win" the election, months in advance; a month before the FBI was informed that the election would be stolen.
There needs to be an investigation of current city clerk Edward P. Finn (all aspects of claims against Mr. Finn, including Finn failing to show up in a criminal case on 1/31/17 even though Mr. Finn was under subpoena,) Adam Knight, George Scarpelli (recently on trial as a co-defendant in that horrible Otis Mass. rape/hazing incident,) and Frederick N. Dello Russo, Jr.
Had Mr. Knight's former employee been hired as city clerk, many more questions would have been raised.
As it was, he initially fell one vote short of being hired, purportedly / allegedly.
I demand an immediate investigation and potentially the removal of Adam Knight, George Scarpelli and Frederick N. Dello Russo, Jr. from the Medford City Council if, indeed, a conspiracy is found to have happened.
The citizens need to see a full investigation of Adam Knight and why he allegedly improperly filed and allegedly only after he had already taken a vote - if, indeed, Adam Knight voted on July 17th.
Respectfully,