Saturday, March 30, 2019

DEMAND LETTER TO OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN REGARDS TO TV3

note: THIS E MAIL WAS SENT PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
NEWS ORGANIZATIONS ARE BEING ASKED TO FILE THEIR OWN PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST TO OBTAIN MY OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND ANY RESULT, AND TO ASK THEIR OWN QUESTIONS!
Re: Massachusetts Public Records Request



Dear Keeper of the Records:

Public records request follows this response to Mr. XXXXXX's (let's call him "Ray Donovan!) response of January 8, 2018.  
Please keep all this material on public record as I am asking multiple news organizations to file their own public records requests to obtain this information regarding corporation #222488492

On January 8, 2018 I received less than a substantial response to my public records request regarding the non-profit Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. corporation #222488492

On March 29, 2019 I spoke with Amy in your office who said there was no movement on the non-profit, corporation #222488492

As well as being of great public interest, I'm shocked that such a long period has passed and that the public, cheated out of cable TV subscriber ratepayer funds, has no way to ascertain how much money came in and exactly where it went.

So let me clarify my needs in regards to records that should be available in your office.


(Ray Donovan's January 8, 2018 response directed me to the website.  I submit that the information I am looking for is not on the public website.

That's why I am filing a public records request: TO GET THE INFORMATION NOT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND OF GREAT PUBLIC INTEREST.

Furthermore, an August 20, 2014 article in the Medford Transcript spells it out where the government has failed to be transparent about with the ratepayers of cable tv:

My discussion with the AG's office was on March 29, 2019.  That is four years, seven months and nine days since the Transcript article, fourteen months and twenty-one days since Mr. (fictitious name "Ray Donovan") sent me his response.


Medford Transcript 8/20/14:

According to the 990-EZ tax form Pilleri filed with the Internal Revenue Service, MCC had $133,342 in cash, savings and investments on May 1, 2013.


According to Jacobson’s review conducted for MCC, the organization had only $95,555 in expenses for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2014, indicating a positive balance.

Rumley said he wants to learn what MCC submitted to the AG’s office before taking legal action against MCC.

“I have been considering it,” he said. “But before I do it, I would like to ask the AG [for more information].“

TV3 has been off-air since March 2013.

1)Mr. Rumley sat on the board of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.    Based on information and belief, Mr. Rumley failed on numerous occasions to live up to his oath of office (See attachment,) "to faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties."

Mr. Rumley's duty was to the cable TV subscribers, not to ignore alleged malfeasance by the very board that he sat on.
 

It appears to be a conflict of interest.

Mr. Rumley's track record is not very good. 

a)As a xxxxxx xxxxxx he used his taxpayer funded e mail on the website of the Immaculate Conception Church.  I have documented that transgression, ordered Rumley to take it down and add a Gmail account, and he complied. Basically, admitting that it was wrong to use a city-owned e mail on a church website.

b)a mayoral candidate informed me that Rumley was allegedly bill collecting on Thursdays at Somerville District Court.

State Rep Paul Donato actually showed me Rumley's office on Spring St, within Rep Donato's office, and - furthermore - that mayoral candidate alleges that Rumley stated "You ratted me out to Joe Vig."  The candidate told me he informed Rumley that court was a public place and there was no "ratting out."

c)Just as Rumley has been less than truthful about public access issues since the moment that I met him, in early 2003, sixteen years ago, Rumley has not been honest about issues at the Medford Housing Authority

---Rumley told the public that the city of Medford was a "separate body politic" from the board of directors of the Medford Housing Authority.

---when I videotaped a board meeting of Medford Housing Authority and asked a question, Rumley jumped up AS IF HE WERE IN A COURT OF LAW TO OBJECT.

YES, Rumley violated his oath of office in an effort to chill my free speech.  

If you read the 5/3/12 article in the Patch it was my hard work and honest efforts which had Governor Deval Patrick remove former Mayor McGlynn's uncle.

Governor Patrick had, perhaps inadvertently, appointed the Mayor's uncle, giving the mayor alleged control over a very crooked Housing Authority, if you believe the newspapers. So much so that McGlynn had to demand his good, good friend Bob Covelle's resignation.   

Covelle is married to the sister of the late sheriff, James V. DiPaola, who also was purportedly one of former mayor McGlynn's best friends.  Addie DiPaola, the sheriff's wife, worked for McGlynn.

It was all one big happy family.  To the detriment of the public if you believe the press.
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McGlynn Calls for Housing Director's Resignation

Mayor asked authority director to resign in a letter Wednesday.

By Jarret Bencks, Patch Staff | May 3, 2012 1:24 am ET | Updated May 15, 2012 4:18 pm ET
Patrick asked Covelle to resign through a letter from Aaron Gornstein, his housing undersecretary, on Thursday, citing the findings of the federal audit. Patrick also replaced his appointment to the authority's commission Eugene McGillicuddy with Sean Caron. McGillicuddy is related to McGlynn through marriage, he said during a housing meeting in April after being asked about his relationship to McGlynn by Medford resident and videographer Joseph Viglione.
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Rumley also appeared in court as a witness when this writer got protection from the court, an HPO against a crazed stalker. 

The stalker, serving one year under the HPO, brought Rumley and his former board members into court to try to smear me.  The judge wouldn't hear of it and extended the HPO, thankfully, for an additional 3 years.

Rumley, on the witness stand throwing verbal rocks at me, had to step down when I objected to the judge, who found Rumley's testimony "irrelevant."
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So we have evidence of Rumley engaging with the former board members that he was investigating.  Rumley alleged to me that he "had" to show up under subpoena.  You know and I know Rumley could have asked the court to be excused as he knew he had no information.

I want this on public record so any investigative reporters can see that the city of Medford's lawyer, Mark E. Rumley, should never have been investigating the finances of the board of directors that he sat on one or two times.  

In my opinion, it was as conflicted as the mayor's uncle being appointed by the governor to serve on a housing authority board.
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Back to the 8-2014 Medford Transcript article:

“The AG’s jurisdiction is on whether the nonprofit corporation should be allowed to go on to complete its dissolution process,” Rumley said. “The concerns I have are related, but not exactly that. My concerns are that ‘X’ amount of dollars were given to MCC from the ratepayers in Medford and [to ensure] the money that was given to them by the ratepayers was properly accounted for before the dissolution.“

THIS WAS RUMLEY'S OWN DESCRIPTION, AND WE NEED TO HOLD HIM TO HIS OATH OF OFFICE AND TO HAVE FINISHED HIS INVESTIGATION.

THE FACT THAT HE REFUSED TO FINISH THE INVESTIGATION

THE FACT THAT SOLICITOR RUMLEY MAKES IT CLEAR TO THE PRESS THAT HIS CONCERNS ARE "NOT EXACTLY" RELATED TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S INVESTIGATION LEADS TO THIS CONCLUSION:

1)RUMLEY HAD AN OBLIGATION VIA HIS OATH OF OFFICE TO INVESTIGATE CONCERNS 'NOT EXACTLY," HIS WORDS, RELATED TO THE AG'S INVESTIGATION

2)WHERE RUMLEY RECUSED HIMSELF FROM THE JIMMY LEE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INVESTIGATION DUE TO HIS CLOSENESS TO RICHARD LEE, WHY DIDN'T RUMLEY RECUSE HIMSELF FROM THE MCC TV3 INVESTIGATION, FAR MORE CRITICAL SINCE HE WAS ON THE VERY BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT ONE OR TWO TIMES IN THE PAST; WHY DIDN'T RUMLEY APPOINT AN IMPARTIAL PERSON?

RUMLEY'S OATH CALLS FOR IMPARTIALITY (SEE ATTACHMENT)

YET RUMLEY WAS HARDLY IMPARTIAL, NOT IMPARTIAL AT ALL.   

RUMLEY WAS NOT DOING THE INVESTIGATION FOR THE CABLE TV SUBSCRIBERS, THOSE HE WAS OBLIGATED TO, BUT FOR THE ISSUING AUTHORITY WHO HAD AN AXE TO GRIND WITH CITIZENS, EX MAYOR MICHAEL J. MCGLYNN, WHO ALSO FAILED TO CONTROL THE 501C3

ALL THE AG'S OFFICE HAS TO DO IS LOOK AT WHAT WAS PUBLISHED IN THE PRESS TO SEE THAT THE FIGURES DO NOT MATCH

SO RUMLEY FAILED TO HIRE AN IMPARTIAL PERSON, RUMLEY SHUT DOWN THE INVESTIGATION, BOTH INSTANCES ALLEGEDLY VIOLATING HIS OATH OF OFFICE, TO BE IMPARTIAL.

PLEASE ANSWER THE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST BELOW AFTER READING THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

According to the 990-EZ tax form Pilleri filed with the Internal Revenue Service, MCC had $133,342 in cash, savings and investments on May 1, 2013.


According to Jacobson’s review conducted for MCC, the organization had only $95,555 in expenses for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2014, indicating a positive balance.


Rumley said he wants to learn what MCC submitted to the AG’s office before taking legal action against MCC.


“I have been considering it,” he said. “But before I do it, I would like to ask the AG [for more information].“


TV3 has been off-air since March 2013.

DO THE MATH ON THAT
what is it?  38K unaccounted for?????

133,342
  95,555
  37,787 $$$ UNACCOUNTED FOR

Not to mention suspicious money for the Executive Director or Station Manager, monies that jump from one year to the next, yet the station manager worked allegedly at Delta Airlines and was only part time.

the station claims monies for publicity or advertising, the public is not aware that monies were spent on those items as claimed.

Like Donald Trump, why are they so afraid to release this information?


DO THE MATH ON THAT
what is it?  38K unaccounted for?????


LOOK INTO THOSE ITEMS

THANK YOU

JOE VIGLIONE


AND NOW, THE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST

(THE REQUEST PUBLISHED ON A PREVIOUS POST WAS ATTACHED HERE!)