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An Editorial by Joe Viglione
Publisher, Editor Medford Information Central Dot Com
Taxpayers in Medford fund one of the most expensive city councils in Middlesex County, if not the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The two hundred thousand dollars or so going to individuals who put their own agenda first could be better spent on infrastructure if Medford had an all-volunteer council and volunteer school committee.
The city would have more effective councilors who speak from the heart and who - by investing their time - provide an indication that they are likely to put Medford first.
SUSPECT IN SMASHED GLASS AT MYSTIC AVENUE
BANK OF AMERICA, CITY COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT
ADAM KNIGHT, FLED SCENE AT HIGH RATE OF SPEED ACCORDING TO MEDFORD POLICE REPORT.
Councilor Knight's run-in with the law on April 1, 2021 - and allegedly fleeing the scene - is evidence that the current system is broken.
It was an act of cowardice not to dial the bank from Knight's car, apologize to the manager - who was on duty - and settle the account. Instead, Knight took off allegedly thinking that he wouldn't be caught. A witness took his license down and the suspect was sought by the police, according to my reading of the police report. Knight eventually spoke with the police and admitted to cursing the Lord. Great role model for the children of Medford? Hardly. Knight's bad temper is legend in this municipality and I've witnessed the harassment of a woman, a former city councilor, a doctor and others by Adam Knight's abuse of the bully pulpit.
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The police report on Adam Knight can be read here: https://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2021/04/police-report-city-council-vice.html
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The day of reckoning is here, and citizens are required to file complaints on the erratic behavior of a council vice president purportedly receiving about Thirty One Thousand Dollars of your taxes.
What if your child was in the bank and got sprayed with broken glass, hearing Mr. Knight yell out the Lord's name in a malicious, vulgar way, only to watch Knight speed off in a vehicle instead of holding himself responsible and accountable?
What if your elder relative got glass in the eye due to Knight engaging in what Sgt/Detective Paul MacKowski determined was a "wanton" act - one that is selfish no matter what the consequences for possible victims:
Wanton Act Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc.
WHY WAS KNIGHT NOT ARRESTED BY SGT. MACKOWSKI?
Officer Paul MacKowski personally told me in a phone conversation that he arrested Gary Zappelli of the now defunct Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. See article in the Medford Transcript:
Bomb threat arrest renews calls for TV3 closure in Medford
https://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20131003/NEWS/310039662
Now please keep in mind, like Adam Knight being an official, Mr. Zappelli was a former board member of the station with a fiduciary obligation to the citizens of Medford. Zappelli would abuse his authority, smear councilors like Breanna Lungo Koehn and Bob Penta as they didn't pay him for services during the election cycle, while Zappelli would praise a reprobate like Michael Marks who did pay Zappelli. It was clear pay to play and abuse of elected officials who didn't pony up.
I asked underhanded Michael Marks how he could pay to play while his colleagues were being unmercifully bashed and Marks shrugged his shoulders saying "Gary is Gary." Talk about a political snake evading the question. Your colleagues got smeared, you paid to play, and you looked good on the TV. With friends like Michael Marks, Bob and Breanna, who needs enemies?
I warned a city councilor about Rick Caraviello being two-faced and got yelled at. When Caraviello stabbed that friend in the back I got a quasi-apology. But what is wrong with people accepting the likes of Caraviello, with his multiple failed businesses and lies to the police, as the expensive President of the Medford City Council?
Shame on every resident that fails to do their homework and see how disingenuous, dangerous and ignorant these "elected officials" turn out to be.
THE FIRST REPORT ON TV3, BY THIS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Mayor McGlynn requested that I write a report on MCC TV3, which I did, and which led to the Rumley Report. Former city solicitor Rumley borrowed generously from my initial report and my updates, promised to credit me, and failed to do so. Are you getting the picture, people? Do you see why Adam Knight is the rule, not the exception. This wrongful conduct has gone on for decades in the city, and Sgt. MacKowski is part of the problem.
Their hope is that if they all act mean and angry, citizens will run, not walk, run and let the malfeasance continue and just appear to be how business is done.
Well, it is wrong.
MacKowski not arresting Adam Knight IS a problem. He arrested Zappelli over an alleged threat to cause harm, and Knight, who has smashed glass and fleeing the scene of the event, gets a pass?
NO! Knight MUST be arrested, must be removed from the city council, and must be permanently banned from Medford politics.
Back to TV3 for a moment to provide more evidence:
Zappelli's notorious conduct included having an image of himself punching violently an image of this writer, airing week after week after week. We are not talking about individuals with scruples. We are talking about an angry individual inciting violence against a public access producer on the television station while denying me my right to the First Amendment.
Does anyone get the gravity of this? Zappelli was part of a board of directors denying myself and many others the same right that he had. And he used the First Amendment to somehow get out of the Grand Jury indictment. But he used the powerful platform to air a violent video aimed at me until I brought him to the police station to call a truce and sign a mutual agreement.
The police had determined that I was the sole victim, but it was clear that the underhanded mayor and possibly the solicitor (whose fingerprints were EVERYWHERE on the malfeasance) didn't want the victim to have his First Amendment rights or even safety from a group of dangerous people who threatened me ...which is on court record.
What I do helping the city, which was the job of former detective John J. McLean, cost me financially, emotionally and reputation wise. McLean phoned me when TV3 was dismantled and said "You won. You won. And the city is better off for it."
And then I was slugged by a city clerk, and harassed by the very detective, Paul MacKowski, who failed to arrest Adam Knight. I beat MacKowski in a court of law, and MacKowski was thrown off of a witness stand in another court while he was "under subpoena" (that he should never have accepted) ...literally aiding and abetting a stalker. MacKowski and Rumley (also thrown off the witness stand for irrelevant testimony) stayed around the courthouse all day to watch me wipe the floor with my tormentor, the judge giving me protection for another three years.
Without a lawyer I prevailed, and Rumley and MacKowski were there watching me. They are terrified of this news outlet, and that says to this elder person that what they do is not Kosher and they don't want the light of the free press, the Fourth Estate, the flashlight. It's key to know with MacKowski now involved in this horrendous Adam Knight case.
MAYOR MCGLYNN'S CITY SOLICITOR FAILED TO DO HIS JOB...INTENTIONALLY
The city solicitor, Mark E. Rumley, was on the board of directors of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., and promised the citizens he would get to the bottom of the missing monies. About Thirty Eight Thousand was reported not accounted for by the Medford Transcript and despite the writer's best efforts, we couldn't get conflicted Rumley to do his job. Rumley was investigating a board that he sat on. Rumley was one of the most powerful officials in Medford. His successor is far more honest and professional, thank God.
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The Zappelli Case and the Adam Knight Case, an important
study for the safety of Medford citizens:
In my opinion, having looked at the case up at the courthouse and studying it, the Zappelli case should never have been dismissed. It sure looked like someone with some political weight (three guesses who? That one is easy, people ...alleged initials of the alleged MM and that is NOT Michael Marks) allegedly got the case dismissed. And now Adam Knight believes he will get a pass as well. Probably by the same "Godfather" of this municipality...Medford's own "Michael Corleone," if you will.
DO NOT LET IT HAPPEN.
Look at Knight's petitions to the council and the issues that he votes against, and votes for. Citizens do not invest the time in studying each and every councilor, the way they speak, and their effectiveness. The council president and vice president in 2021 have terrible public speaking skills. That matters. The president mumbles, the vice president sounds like a vinyl record playing at the wrong speed. That is so disrespectful to the taxpayers funding the fiasco, and make no doubt about it, the Medford City Council has been a fiasco for the past two decades.
The clearest way to send a message to a flawed, malicious and self-serving city council is to remove Adam Knight.
Adam Knight should be arrested, investigated, put on trial, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. My preference would be to have an honest Sgt/Detective on the case, but we are talking about Medford with the most untrustworthy police force in all of Middlesex County, according to District Attorney Marian Ryan's Disclosure / Brady list.
If Adam Knight isn't indicted, I'm blaming Paul MacKowski. And you, dear taxpayer/resident, will get screwed again by a flawed system with alleged public servants that can't be trusted.
The bottom line: Paul MacKowski went after an innocent man for his vendetta; meanwhile, Adam Knight smashed the glass of a bank and fled.
That math is easy to do.
Remove Knight from the city council. Arrest him, and let him have his day in court. Anything less is diabolical, Mr. MacKowski. Because, Mr. MacKowski, a coward can go after a senior citizen with false charges (and lose.) It takes integrity to take on an elected official, and nothing you have done, Paul MacKowski, that this journalist has witnessed, has displayed any honesty, honor or courage.
Once again, I'm doing the job that the police are paid to do. Got rid of TV3 Medford, a very difficult task. Removing the reprobate Mr. Adam Knight. With this evidence? That is going to be easy, because taxpayers are tired of getting screwed in this city, and that is the argument front and center.
"You are doing this for the citizens, not for yourself"
Mark Rumley on Joe Viglione's hard work and honest efforts.
The only honest thing I've ever heard from Mr. Rumley
(This is an opinion piece. This is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and like McClean said "the city is better off for it." Too bad JJ didn't lift a finger to help, even with that $119,000.00 a year paycheck.)
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