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The AG's office (finally) got me 5 pages of correspondence today as we start unraveling what happened at TV3 Medford.
I now have to go through all 5 pages with very specific issues - and we will have a dialogue back and forth - this reporter and the Public Charities division of the office of the Attorney General.
You've seen how successful I have been with other issues - so do the simple math:
what is more difficult? Getting the L'Italien Report, or documents on TV3?
The hard job was successfully completed. That crony board is going to be shocked by what is uncovered. Watch us!
The Art Deluca Gang WILL be brought to Justice!
So help me God!
8:51 pm email to the city council.
John Falco, President
Medford City Council Room 207
85 Geo P. Hassett Drive
Medford MA 02155
Hello Council President Falco:
The big question Verizon/Comcast cable TV subscribers have is why hasn't the city council protected ratepayer monies and fought as intelligently and persistently as Joe Viglione has to recover the financial records of a non-profit public charity that the AG's office still hasn't allowed to enter into dissolution.
Today I received a 5 page correspondence from the Attorney General's office regarding my request for documents on the missing TV3 monies and the perpetual "dissolution." Determination SPR 19/2470
This city council is more than happy to hand themselves raises when the Medford council, under Plan A government, has little or no power.
Actually - if one individual like myself can utilize the Open Meeting Law and FOIA it shows the public how lax the council has been, ignoring pertinent issues to please the issuing authority, former mayors Muccini-Burke and McGlynn. Why hasn't the council worked as hard as a journalist has? That's the question.
That kind of negligence is not why you get approximately $550.00 per councilor per meeting, around
four thousand dollars per week, 16k per month, $200,000.00 a year.
If a journalist can do this hard work and heavy lifting, why not each and every city councilor?
As you know, I initiated my investigation into TV3 in 2002, meeting with Mark Rumley early 2003
-with Human Rights Commissioner Diane McLeod present - and continue to look deep into this puzzle of Mike McGlynn's making. Mr. McGlynn and Mr. Rumley were intentionally negligent with millions of cable ratepayer dollars over the past 35 years or so. We have the facts.
The AG's office responded for the past 5 years with the line "law enforcement could be impeded" (if they hand over the documents.)
Utilizing my victory over the police department and city hall to obtain the L'Italien Report (and Middlesex DA Marian Ryan's hand was probably forced to put the 27 officers on the "Brady list" by my publishing the 64 page document,) I used the legal language from that FOIA request to finally wrestle some results out of the AG's office in this totally insane failure to hold Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. accountable.
The moment of truth has arrived. I believe we will hold that outrageous board of directors responsible for interference in our documenting of Medford, Massachusetts history. The sports, the arts, the daily fabric of Medford life all demolished because some selfish individuals suspiciously created a board of directors using names of former board members, as I pointed out to Mr. Rumley after verifying it with Brian Mahoney, a board member at TV 3 prior to the 2005 rebuilding of the station whose name was used but who had moved out of Medford.
40 Canal St was a marvelous studio, but one individual who allegedly appointed himself president of the station allegedly had a beef with the landlord. That was before they had the beef with the landlord at 5 High St. and went into the limbo on Riverside Ave (with no connectivity...an access station goes to an island that can't connect to the cable wires! Go figure!) How happy was Landlord #3 with the mess made by TV3 Medford?
In any sane society the mayor would have removed them, but - of course - that was left up to myself and two colleagues to finally bring the issue(s) to the boiling point - where McGlynn had to remove them, two decades too late.
I personally saved this city approximately Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars fighting hard to shut down MCC TV3. Mayor Burke and former superintendent Belson squandered that money on the high school. They intentionally failed to abide by the Open Meeting Law regarding the Chapter 74 board - until yours truly pointed it out and Belson and Burke were embarrassed - on the AG's website. Mrs. Burke didn't even take her OML exam if my reading of the FOIA response is accurate. Just as I forced former council president Paul Camuso to read up on Open Meeting Law rules, we focused on a mayor who didn't really care to do her job and play by the rules. And we won another victory for the people.
It's time the city council honestly explored where the missing P/E/G monies are and how to retrieve them, if possible. 38K was missing according to the Medford Transcript. Is there a statute of limitations and why is this city council so unconcerned about public monies?
If you stopped getting your paychecks you would actually start doing your job(s,) wouldn't you?
Adam Knight's first month in office he calls MCC TV3 "a fiasco." Then he turns around and aligns himself with violent Matt Page Lieberman (see police report, April 2010) to harass a candidate for Mayor in 2015 - with the culprit that was a big part of the fiasco.
Mr. Knight's hypocrisy is obvious and blatant. Instead of handing out birthday wishes to people on the government channel so that he can campaign while getting paid on the council (what a conflict,) maybe Mr. Knight should investigate his pals at TV3 that helped him harass a politician in 2015, a mayoral candidate so much more popular than Mr. Knight.
Do I think this lazy council will actually do the right thing? No. This e mail is just to put it on public record how negligent and out-of-touch the city council is in Medford, Massachusetts.
Mr. Falco, the residents have been shortchanged. Are you man enough to tackle the budget on P/E/G access, or is that 60 percent going to the general fund too tempting for you to ignore?
Sincerely,
Joe Viglione
