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Mayor Stephanie Muccini-Burke
Mayor Stephanie Muccini-Burke
Medford City Hall
85 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford MA 02155
RE: A New City Solicitor
NOTICE: THE FOLLOW-UP E MAIL WILL BE SUCCINCT WITH PERTINENT FACTS LISTED
IN AN EASY-TO-READ FORMAT
THIS IS A QUITE LENGTHY ESSAY - THE CASE AGAINST MARK RUMLEY
Dear Medford Government Officials:
Look at how the City Clerk's office has IMPROVED with the replacement of violent Edward P. Finn?
Imagine how Medford, the city, will improve with a new City Solicitor!
1)FAILURE TO PERFORM
This is about Solicitor Rumley's failure to perform; allegations that he violated his oath, and why I believe that freedom of speech / the free press, is thwarted/demolished in Medford due to Rumley's self-serving actions which have had a negative impact on Medford life.
2)RETALIATION
AS MEDFORD CITY GOVERNMENT HAS A PENCHANT TO RETALIATE,
THIS IS A COURAGEOUS ESSAY BY SOMEONE VICTIMIZED BY MR. RUMLEY AND OTHERS IN CITY GOVERNMENT.
3)OATH OF OFFICE
When looking at Mark E. Rumley's oath of office for the city of Medford, and Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 221, - Section 38 The oldest attorney’s oath in the United States - one can see conflict with BOTH those solemn oaths and Mr. Rumley's activities.
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So what do citizens do with and about the problem, Police Chief Buckley?
4)HIGHEST OF STANDARDS FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Overtaxed Medford citizens deserve the highest of standards; yet Rumley has placed the bar so despicably low for himself - and so high for those he claims he is serving - that the public has become desensitized to perpetual bad behavior by two mayors, a lengthy list of suspicious elected officials (Ms. Van der Kloot, Mrs. Cugno, the aforementioned Dello Russo, Knight, Scarpelli, Caraviello, along with Leo A. Sacco "My son doesn't need that breathalyzer" Jr., Paul Camuso and his uncle-by-marriage, Robert A Maiocco and his creepy behavior at Wells Fargo, the list goes on and on,) and many others.
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5)MISSING PROPERTY - COPPER, MANHOLE COVERS, OAK BENCHES, CURBSTONES, DOORS, many, if not all, on Rumley's watch:
Medford cannot progress when the wolves are raiding the hen house - from the Medford Housing Authority to the DPW.
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6)FAILURE TO RESPOND PROPERLY TO LEGAL PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS
In a response to a Public Records Request I believe that Mark Rumley's office violated the law when:
a)They provided no documents until this writer prevailed in two appeals to the office of the Secretary of State
b)In the "no document" response (see two pages attached, and a third attachment pulled from those 2 pages, RSZ_door) Rumley's office said this:
"Property owned by Medford residents is private property, therefore Medford City Hall would not have records on what private residents remove."
Two appeals later we find out that the city doors I asked about, owned by the citizens, are being "repaired," allegedly.
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It is disgusting that Mr. Rumley cannot be forthright.
The nonsense has got to stop, and the elections need outside oversight to protect these entities - with no term limits to worry about - from further destroying the city.
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THE CASE AGAINST MARK E RUMLEY
I find it totally shocking that an individual with so much power in the city of Medford has no checks and balances; that Mr. Rumley allegedly runs roughshod over the law and has total disregard for his ethical responsibilities to you, to me, to anyone he is empowered to serve.
Enclosed is just a small portion of the evidence that Mark E. Rumley serves himself. Rumley needs to be impeached, put on trial, and removed from his position as Medford City Solicitor.
This writer believes that the evidence proves that Mark Rumley has violated his oath to the city, and the oath to the Commonwealth. It is an ugly picture of underhanded dealings that serve to eat away at the rights of Medford citizens.
7)THE LAWYER'S OATH IN MASSACHUSETTS
I solemnly swear that I will do no falsehood, nor consent to the doing of any in court; I will not wittingly or willingly promote or sue any false, groundless or unlawful suit, nor give aid or consent to the same; I will delay no man for lucre or malice; but I will conduct myself in the office of an attorney within the courts according to the best of my knowledge and discretion, and with all good fidelity as well to the courts as my clients. So help me God.
On or about September 1, 2016, Mark E. Rumley was found by Judge Yee to be giving "irrelevant" testimony
where Rumley appeared to be DEFENDING a stalker; called to the witness stand by the stalker's attorney, Rumley could have easily went to the court and admitted he had no knowledge of the case.
Instead, Rumley attacked the victim from the witness stand. The witness objected, the judge agreed, and Rumley was removed from the stand.
Rumley, of course, disagrees with the facts stated above. Because Rumley is a scoundrel; not an alleged scoundrel, the city solicitor IS a scoundrel.
unscrupulous person; a rogue.
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On the surface, without going into Mark Rumley's misdeeds, we have a long-time city attorney turning a blind eye to the multitude of misdeeds against Medford residents by his pals on the ever dissolving board of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.
Dubbed "equal opportunity slappers" by Rumley himself, Rumley never did ANYTHING to stop the phony trials where a cousin of Rumley's friend, the Mayor, benefited - paid public access TV monies to persecute a critically acclaimed public access TV host.
Indeed, the lawyer who received those monies was the alleged "best friend" of Rumley's late brother, just as a rogue police officer was the brother of Rumley's alleged "best friend," the late Richard Lee.
The pattern of a Police Chief's son not getting a breathalyzer or a field sobriety test; or Rumley "investigating" a board of directors (TV3) that he was appointed to; or a Gerry Clemente and a Thomas K. Doherty having one of the most celebrated crimes in Medford History on their record with Clemente becoming a book author allegedly profiting from his crime against Medford's people and others, manhole covers at the DPW, copper at the Medford Housing Authority, sex crimes at the high school; a magazine at the high school; no CORI checks for people renting the high school but Mark Rumley zealously and obsessively doing everything in his power to shut down access television to the citizens, businesses and civic groups with his warped and twisted "CORI CHECK" - Rumley's depravity and spitting on the First Amendment a clear violation of his oath of office to the city.
Shall I go on? Rumley telling me that Judge Jackson-Thompson was faxing back and forth with him when Judge Jackson-Thompson was paid $3900.00 to make a judgment, not "rubber stamp" the unfinished "Rumley Report."
Judge Jackson-Thompson said publicly that she wasn't here to "rubber stamp the Rumley Report." Well, you did, your Honor.
8)LIP SERVICE FROM MARK RUMLEY AND PAUL J. DONATO
Mr. Rumley's lips move, yet his actions are in direct conflict with his lying lips!
Paul J. Donato - who shared an office with Rumley on Spring St. when Rumley was allegedly putting on his bill collector's hat on Thursdays (on company time?) in Somerville District Court - is purportedly the anti-bully state rep! Yet Donato bullies as good as Rumley, when Paul Donato isn't allegedly touching the private parts of Michael Marks on October 15, 2017 at 10:30 am - a Sunday - in the highly sexualized Medford High School in front of two little children (allegedly John Falco's kids) and a 15 year old student; two days after Jenna Tarabelsi was convicted of rape.
That's when Rumley isn't using his taxpayer-funded e mail on a Catholic church website where he was listed as "permanent Deacon." So much for being permanent, his name I can't seem to find on that site anymore.
From Mr. Rumley's LINKED IN
I was assigned to Immaculate Conception Parish in Malden, MA from 1998 to 2016.
Mark Rumley - City Solicitor - City of Medford, Medford, MA 02155 ...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-rumley-827903ba
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9)FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN MEDFORD
The Medford Transcript, like the Medford Mercury before it, were allegedly, secretly wholly-owned by way of politics "kinda sorta subsidiaries" of Medford City Hall - meaning - they dare not investigate or watch the advertising dry up...allegedly
Inside Medford found the editor hired by the high school, and paid with access TV monies that I believe belonged to the Government channel, allegedly.
3 teachers get paid salaries from the access monies, and the publisher/editor of Inside Medford is one of them.
So the once critical Inside Medford quite literally became "inside Medford."
The editor of Medford Information Central faced phony "witness intimidation" charges in criminal court when:
a)the editor/publisher was viciously and violently attacked by the city clerk
b)an elected official immediately intimidated Joe Viglione telling him to shut up about it
c)in December of 2015 the police started their retaliation - not because of dirty Edward P. Finn (who skipped out on a criminal court subpoena, for obvious reasons, he would be caught red-handed because by filing false charges the police had to admit Finn committed a crime, allegedly!, in order to get the false charges IN to court)
the police filed the phony charges using Finn as an excuse, because the editor put in a public records request (FOIA) to find out which student allegedly slept with a teacher, a crime allegedly hushed up by Mayor Burke and allegedly by former Mayor McGlynn, putting Mr. Rumley's credibility to the test yet again: Rumley allegedly knows EVERYTHING, so every alleged crime allegedly goes onto Rumley's radar.
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10)THE COPPER AND MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY
So conflicted Solicitor Rumley tells the citizens that Medford Housing is "a separate body politic" knowing that it is not so separate when former Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. alleged president, Eugene McGilliccudy, McGlynn's own uncle by marriage to McGlynn's father's sister, is sitting on the board allegedly appointed by Governor Deval Patrick Read that, allegedly Tim Murray allegedly did a favor for McGlynn allegedly tipping the scales of power at Medford Housing until Joe Viglione's camera got Uncle Gene to admit it on tape, Viglione then going to the office of Deval Patrick and VOILA - Eugene was dismissed
BUT - Mr. Rumley, attempting to squelch my free speech, jumped up like he was objecting in a court of law.
I have it on tape. I said "YOU, SIT DOWN" and Rumley did like a bad doggy, caught with his pants down, just as he was when I objected in a real court (9/1/16) and had Rumley removed from a witness stand where he was being a jerk and attacking my credibility - a cottage industry of Rumley's - assassinating Joe Vig perpetually.
Anti-Bully State reprobate Paul Donato called me up screaming about my removing Uncle Gene, saying I never got to Deval Patrick until he realized that I did!
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Really, Mr. Donato? So this reporter can't ask Uncle Gene a question (Cap intentional - that's what TV3 named Uncle Gene, Steve Marra, to be specific, and "uncle gene" was a pejorative term from TV3, which allegedly changed wiring at the TV station to mess up Uncle Gene's work there!)
Donato doesn't give a damn about your free speech. He bought me coffee at Dunkin Donuts Haines Sq. to get me on Jack Dempsey's TV station, not yours. Said my show would go on if it was "educational." Dempsey never called, Donato never followed up. Charlatan.
Yet I invited Donato to be on my show in Winchester.
STATE REPRESENATIVE PAUL DONATO (D-MASSACHUETTS)
You're a decent person. You should be the kind of person that people have a lot of respect for. I have respect for you." State Representative Paul Donato
You're a decent person. You should be the kind of person that people have a lot of respect for. I have respect for you." State Representative Paul Donato
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Then there's this malarkey from the retired judge who awarded me a victory against MediaOne in Woburn
(now COMCAST)
(now COMCAST)
"I'm here to make sure that this TV station is the best it can be for
ourselves and for our children" Judge Marie O. Jackson-Thompson (retired)
ourselves and for our children" Judge Marie O. Jackson-Thompson (retired)
City Solicitor Mark E. Rumley / Medford Daily Mercury on or about Nov. 16, 2008 (quoted from the 2nd Judge Jackson-Thompson hearing) saying:
“The one sentiment that I have heard that I take great exception to is that the city is trying to limit speech,” said Rumley. “The notion the city would censor or squelch free speech is baseless and as city solicitor I would find any such effort repugnant.”
“The one sentiment that I have heard that I take great exception to is that the city is trying to limit speech,” said Rumley. “The notion the city would censor or squelch free speech is baseless and as city solicitor I would find any such effort repugnant.”
The conclusion:
Rumley must retire or needs to be impeached, tried and punished.
MORE TO FOLLOW
Joe Viglione
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn MA 01888
Looking back at troubled attorney Rumley's alleged misconduct one thing is certain in my mind: Mr. Rumley needs to be evaluated and, with the evidence that I present here, a no confidence vote should be considered by the Medford City Council.
The problem with that? Like rogue Republican's defending indefensible behavior by Donald J. Trump, the citizens who put their TRUST in untrustworthy Dick Caraviello,
untrustworthy Frederick N. Dello Russo, Jr., untrustworthy Adam Knight, untrustworthy George "allegedly, according to court documents, will "punch" your child athlete in the mouth" Scarpelli, have misplaced their trust. Those immoral individuals will vote to keep their "bird of a feather" Mark Rumley in power.
Massachusetts Attorney’s Oath Of Office
Issue November/December 2017 By MBA President Christopher P. Sullivan
January 17, 1977, was a bitter cold winter day in Boston. I had come here on that day to be sworn in as a brand new member of the Massachusetts bar. As I entered the “New Courthouse” that housed the Supreme Judicial Court, I wasn’t thinking about all the many outstanding lawyers who so skillfully practiced their craft in the courts of this commonwealth. That list is far too long to fit in this limited space, but includes greats, such as John Adams, who wrote the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, which was the model for the United States Constitution; Daniel Webster; Rufus Choate; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the United States Supreme Court Justice who famously defended First Amendment rights against criminal prosecution; and, of course, Louis D. Brandeis, the “People’s Lawyer” who helped develop the concept of the right to privacy before he, too, became a Supreme Court Justice. Brandeis and Holmes were critically important founding fathers who helped create the Massachusetts Bar Association. As Massachusetts lawyers we should take pride in the history of our profession in the commonwealth.
No, on that day, I wasn’t thinking of any great Massachusetts lawyers. My wife and I were expecting our second child any moment. And I was under strict orders to get back home as soon as I possibly could. Perhaps because I was so preoccupied, I don’t remember too much about that day, except that John E. Powers, clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, swore in our small group of a dozen or so new lawyers in his office. I do remember he told us that our reputations as lawyers were more important than any client could ever be. That was great advice and something I hope none of us ever forget.
The swearing in event was simple and so efficient that it was over almost before it began. With my mind on my wife and the new child who would arrive the next day, I was not reflecting on the ancient Massachusetts Attorney’s Oath of Office, which I had just taken. As Maura Doyle, the clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County now tells all new lawyers being sworn in, it is the oldest attorney’s oath in the country.
Several years ago, as an MBA officer, I began speaking at the new admittees swearing in ceremonies, which are now conducted with great pomp and circumstance in historic Faneuil Hall. The old hall is always packed with the new attorneys to be, and with their families and friends filling each and every seat. As part of those ceremonies, SJC Clerk Maura Doyle educates the soon to be attorneys about the oath and its history, including that Maine also claims ownership of the oath.
The oath is short, only 90 words long, but it certainly provides a clear road map for how Massachusetts attorneys swear they will conduct themselves. The new attorneys swear they “will to do no falsehood, nor consent to the doing of any in court.” The oath also binds the attorneys not to “sue any false, groundless or unlawful suit” nor to consent or help anyone trying to do so. The attorneys promise they won’t cause delays for “lucre” [money] or malice.” Finally, the ancient oath requires the attorneys to conduct themselves “with all good fidelity” toward the courts and their clients — simple, yet powerful promises.
Now that oath is on my smart phone and every few weeks, especially when I’ve had a hard day, I read it. The oath reminds me of the solemn promises I made so long ago. Reading it always makes me realize what a noble profession the law is. Reading the oath brings me right back to what is most important in our work.
In the current era of “fake news,” “alternative facts” and the over-zealous advocacy practiced by some, it is helpful to remember how we have all sworn to conduct ourselves in this ancient and honorable profession we love.
I solemnly swear that I will do no falsehood, nor consent to the doing of any in court; I will not wittingly or willingly promote or sue any false, groundless or unlawful suit, nor give aid or consent to the same; I will delay no man for lucre or malice; but I will conduct myself in the office of an attorney within the courts according to the best of my knowledge and discretion, and with all good fidelity as well to the courts as my clients. So help me God.
Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 221, Section 38
The oldest attorney’s oath in the United States
The oldest attorney’s oath in the United States
On Sept. 1, 2016 Medford Solicitor Rumley was removed from a witness stand by a judge for testimony deemed "irrelevant." On September 28, 2017, Rumley admitted that he put the demand for a CORI check into the public access producer agreement. The victim in the 2016 case told Rumley to his face on 9/28/17 that Rumley's CORI demand was in direct conflict with the above statement to the retired judge that the city would squelch free speech. The solicitor - enraged with livid eyes that were infuriated - has a lot of hot air but no respect for the citizens paying his enormous, bloated salary. This is NOT a man who cares about the citizens of Medford or their civil rights.
