Complaint on Adam Knight - Did Falco Violate Rule 9?

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City Council President John C. Falco, Jr.

Room 207

85 George P. Hassett Drive

Medford MA 02155

RE: Substantial Complaint on Adam Knight

       Substantial Concern that Council President has failed to keep order  Violation of Rule 9

       Verizon and Comcast Agreements protecting citizens against censorship

       Robert's Rules of Order and the Medford City Council rules.

Dear Mr. Falco/Council President:

As you know "Robert’s Rules provides rules and procedures that allow a deliberative assembly to make its decisions efficiently, but with all due regard for the rights of the minority." 

On Tuesday, March 11, 2020, my rights were again violated by Adam Knight, Zac Bears and the council president's failure to adhere to

Rule 9.

Pursuant to Robert's Rules of Order  "It is also appropriate to require attendees to be civil to one another and refrain from using profanity or personal insults"    Mr. Knight yelling "The gentleman is disrupting the council" was aimed at a victim of Knight's misconduct and Ken Krause's yelling in council chambers. Again, President Falco violated Rule 9 by not slamming the gavel and protecting this speaker.

Pursuant to Rule 2 of the current Medford City Council Rules "all meetings of the City Council, and of Committee thereof shall be open to the public and to the press, and the City Council shall provide that the citizens and employees of the City shall have reasonable opportunity to be heard at any such meeting in regard to any matter considered thereat."

As a member of the press I have been antagonized repeatedly by Mr. Knight, former councilor Camuso, demanding my "Boston press pass," whatever that is supposed to mean.  As you are certainly aware, I obtain press passes - multiple - on a daily basis.  The slight that sophomoric behavior by councilors like Knight perpetrate IS a violation of the city council rule #2 ..."...shall have reasonable opportunity to be heard at any such meeting in regard to any matter..."

When former councilors Camuso and Dello Russo allegedly editorialize to harass, when Knight carries their water today, it is a low standard that violates the rights of every single member of Middlesex County and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, not just within the Medford city limits.  It is regrettable, it is boorish, and I've set my mind on reporting it to any government agency that will listen.

Mr. Knight violated former citizen Jeanne Martin's rights, he has violated the rights of other citizens, and on March 10, 2020 this SCHEDULED speaker wrote to Clerk Adam Hurtubise and Diversity Director Neil Osborne in advance so that it is on public record what

the ill-mannered Adam Knight would do.  I'm not psychic, Knight's callous abuse of citizens, his perpetual cruel indifference to the rights of others is now ingrained by improper oversight by the President and Vice-President of the Medford City Council or anyone else in a position to have the courage to file a no-confidence vote AND successfully remove Adam Knight from his position on the council for the constant violations of the rules noted here.

PRESIDENT FALCO'S FAILURE TO KEEP ORDER

Adam Knight violated the rules and Council President Falco shamefully did not reprimand Adam Knight nor did President Falco sanction Knight for his disrupting of a public meeting.  Later in the meeting he yelled at his victim and said "The Gentleman is disrupting the meeting" when I was victimized by Knight and Patrick Gordon's accomplice, Kenneth Krause.  It was incumbent upon President Falco to slam the gavel and demand order.  You, President Falco, failed to do so.  Why are citizens paying you more than Thirty Thousand dollars if you refuse to do your job and keep the council order?

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As a journalist I have fielded numerous complaints on Adam Knight, such comments as "He keeps getting away with it," "No one stops him,' "He thinks he can do this repeatedly" and allegations that his behavior is not limited to his juvenile antics at the council, and allegations why.

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Now - imagine for a moment - Erin DiBenedetto, Jean Nuzzo, Natalie Breen replacing George Scarpelli, Rick Caraviello and Adam Knight on the council.  Knowing these candidates (who are all next in line if the aforementioned councilors step down or are removed) we wouldn't have the disruptive activities of Mr. Knight and Mr. Caraviello, nor would we have the stain of Mr. Scarpelli's alleged failure to perform as chaperone in Otis, Massachusetts.  In this era of the #MeToo movement, Scarpelli's alleged failure to protect the very athletes he was required to chaperone would be enough for an honest individual to resign from the council and from future field trips.  A man with integrity wouldn't allow such an alleged blemish to infect the Medford City Council.   An honest councilor would realize that he had violated his oath, could not serve the public properly, and that his conscience would require him to step down.  These individuals are now on our City Council Brady List - a list of individuals so negligent that they cannot be trusted to be public servants. They are self-serving and not eligible to honestly work with the public in the capacity they now enjoy.

Richard Caraviello's filing of a false police report and possible perjury if his answer in criminal court about not moonlighting was not the truth is another example of a reprobate unfit for service, a selfish, arrogant, unintelligent individual who allegedly committed compensation fraud by stepping away from the council prior to a critical vote on pay-to-park.  Caraviello didn't provide the service, but - ostensibly - cashed the check.

Caraviello filed false charges on a man when a case was already dismissed.  It was fraud.  Caraviello's accomplices on the Medford Police Department are part of a department that has the worst Brady List presence in all of Middlesex County.

One of the most expensive city councils in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has Michael Marks in a photo with an elected official reaching for his erogenous zone - and Marks - rather than distancing himself from the sex prank (with Mayor Burke laughing at it) - was participating in the crude and offensive act on October 15, 2017 in front of two little children and a fifteen year old student AT Medford High School.  Equally egregious is that those two children were alleged to be members of the family of a city councilor.  So if some father allegedly is negligent when it comes to his own children, how can senior citizens expect protection at the city council of Medford?  

What do I know, I only snapped a serious of photos at 10:30 am that morning which are proof that not only does this city council not abide by Robert's Rules of Order - Marks, Scarpelli, Caraviello and the father of those children can't even behave in public without embarrassing the city of Medford.

Now our mayor might say "Be positive, don't be negative," which - in the opinion of a man a lot older than her, I consider enabling.

Note to Breanna Lungo-Koehn, if you condone such despicable and vile behavior in public and at the city council, then your policies and your administration become part of the problem.  

ELECTED OFFICIALS SHOULD BE HELD TO THE HIGHEST OF STANDARDS.

WHEN ADAM KNIGHT HARASSED AN OLDER MAN OF A PROTECTED GROUP AS HE DID LAST NIGHT, HE VIOLATED THE AGREEMENT WITH COMCAST AND VERIZON NOT TO CENSOR

ADAM KNIGHT VIOLATED THE RULES REGARDING DECENCY

AND EVERY SINGLE CITY COUNCILOR WHO SITS BY AND GIVES KNIGHT THE LATITUDE TO DISRESPECT, HARASS AND BESMIRCH INDIVIDUALS OBEYING THE RULES IS JUST AS GUILTY AS ADAM KNIGHT.

President Falco's violation of Rule 9

Duties of the Presiding Officer

Rule 9.

The presiding officer shall preserve decorum and order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal by the City Council, regularly seconded; and no other business shall be in order until the question on the appeal from the ruling of the Chair shall be by roll call and shall stand, unless a majority of the votes are to the question of appeal.

President Falco, you did not preserve decorum and order.  A speaker waited for you to bang the gavel on Mr. Knight and you were irresponsible, derelict in your duties, and that, potentially, is compensation fraud.  You are being paid extra, is it not true?, to maintain

order and you failed to do so when Knight was out of order and when Kenneth Krause was out of order and when Knight was out of order again.  I submit that you, President Falco, were irresponsible.

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I submit that Mr. Adam Knight has repeatedly fractured the rules to harass members of the public that he dislikes.  Conversely, as I noted last evening, Mr. Knight's "new rules" will allow for Knight to give condolences and happy birthdays without rebuke and without a vote to get a quorum.   But if Knight chooses who to give a happy birthday to, does it benefit his campaign?  Is it a long-term campaign for office?

So Mr. Knight claims that he is the arbiter of who is commended for a birthday or who is mourned; it becomes Mr. Knight's raison d'etre. Knight doesn't file proper motions or resolutions - his years at the council are rife with outreach to his base which I consider campaigning on company time. A sort of "compensation fraud," if you will and using the city council in a manner in which it is not supposed to be used.

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Ted Tomasone was removed from Somerville District Court for allegedly benefiting himself by using government resources. Allegedly.

If these facts in this e mail are indicators, what do we NOT know about the conduct of the individuals who are the subject of these allegations?   Have they done things equally or more out of line that we should be made aware of?

Council Chambers

Rule 43.

The Medford City Council Chambers shall be open to all Medford citizens for the purposes of disseminating public information, holding of public meetings and hearings, the holding of City Council and School Committee meetings when called, and all festive activities relating to the working of the City Government At no time within the Council Chambers will banners, placards, hand held signs or any other public display of advertising an issue before the City Council be permitted.

Edward P. Finn, City Clerk printed this edition on October 16, 2007

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I was disseminating public information on the millions of dollars cable subscribers pay into cable TV, i.e. The Franchise Fee.

Mr. Knight maliciously, willfully and with intent to disrupt the flow of the meeting, acted in an inappropriate manner and the council President, Mr. Falco, violated Rule 9 by not keeping the flow - giving Zac Bears and Mr. Knight an opportunity to further violate the anti-censorship clauses of the Verizon and Comcast agreements.

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Rules of parliamentary procedure, Common law rules of order, Robert's Rules of Order, the Medford City Council Rules all just window dressing with multiple citizens, including former members of the council itself, at the mercy of unscrupulous, damaged people who gorge themselves on taxpayer funds without providing the service such payment demands.

Where is the high standard for this council.  Zac Bears allegedly showing up in Alden Chambers under-dressed before taking the oath of office, Mr. Caraviello blurting out that he's the "Top S.O.B." in Medford prior to a council meeting but standing in the President's space at the podium, pretentious activities by those who demand respect as alleged elected officials, but fail to give respect to those they take enormous sums of money from.   With these facts that I have set forth, it is an understatement to say that the Medford City Council is the very flower of the term "compensation fraud," the purest example of taking public money not earned, as evidenced by Knight's censorship tactics and the President of the council failing to adhere to Rule 9.

Respectfully Written for the People of Medford

Joe Viglione