Hey Mr. Rumley,
Didn't the AG's office, under Martha Coakley, demand an investigation into the copper at Medford Housing Authority?
did it get swept under the rug?
Wasn't it more like $33,000.00 allegedly, not $3,000.00 ??? Enquiring minds want to know.
A letter was sent to the Medford Police giving notice of a metal company that may have received the copper. You know what the response was?
CRICKETS!
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The housing authority’s director of operations told the Globe this week that he kept money from the sale of salvaged copper pipes in 2011. John Lonergan said that he planned to use the money for an employee barbecue - with the approval of housing director Robert Covelle - but the barbecue never happened.
Lonergan contends that he did not spend the money, which he estimated at $1,300, instead keeping it in his desk for at least a year before returning it to the authority last month. But he acknowledged he did not get a receipt to show how much cash he had received. He denied rumors that he received nearly $3,000 and that he and others spent the cash on themselves.
On Thursday, Attorney General Martha Coakley subpoenaed several Medford Housing Authority employees involved in the salvage job, according to a state official who asked to remain anonymous because of the confidentiality of the investigation. Now they’ll have to answer questions before a grand jury that has been investigating the authority for months.
