Janice Spencer
City Hall: Room 206
City Solicitor & Public Records Access Officer
Email: JSpencer@medford-ma.gov
85 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155
STAFF
Janice Spencer
Office Manager/Confidential Secretary
Email: jspencer@medford-ma.gov
Phone: (781) 393-2470
Fax: (781) 393-2410
City Hall: Room 103
STAFF
Adam L. Hurtubise, City Clerk
Email: ccmembers@medford-ma.gov
Phone: (781) 393-2425
Fax: (781) 391-1895
Joseph W. Casey
Medford Police Dept. Public Records
100 Main St
Medford MA 02155
Re: Massachusetts Public Records Request regarding City Councilor Richard F Caraviello
Dear Records Officer Spencer, city clerk Adam Hurtubise, Madame Mayor and
Officer Casey,
MPD Records Officer, records officer at Caraviello Campaign Headquarters
and/or City Council President and Vice President:
This is a request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law
(M. G. L. Chapter 66, Section 10).
I am requesting that I be provided a copy of the following records:
1)Mayoral candidate and city councilor Richard F. Caraviello
is rumored to have been in
an allegedly irresponsible
boating accident.
As this is of great public interest to the Medford voters and taxpayers,
I'm requesting all documents concerning Mr. Caraviello's conduct
and activities during this tragedy
be they police reports, newspaper articles, internal documents
at city hall and/or the police department, 911 calls, everything
concerning the event.
This is directed to the campaign office of Richard Caraviello,
Medford Police Dept,
Medford City Hall, the office of the city council and city clerk.
Mr. Caraviello took an oath of office that he has violated repeatedly.
Keeper of the Records at the Medford Police and
City Hall should contact public servant Rick Caraviello if they need the dates,
however, Mr. Caraviello's office is also on
notice that his office should supply the materials.
An example of the public interest. Paul Ruseau,
the former Paul Comeau Jr.,
was a convicted felon prior to running
for the school committee in Medford.
There was zero transparency until my publication
revealed Ruseau's imprisonment
and misdeeds, including but probably not limited to theft from a school.
The irony of a convicted thief who went to prison
for stealing from a school on the powerful
Medford school committee is an example
of why highly secretive Caraviello
needs to be transparent, which Caraviello is actually campaigning on
while mocking Mayor Breanna Lungo Koehn
See Exhibit A (attached) dated June 25, 2023 from Caraviello's campaign
Facebook page. Fair use copyright of a public
official running for elected office.
Mr. Caraviello, an elected official and alleged public servant,
is required to comply with this transparency request.
Insurance forms including the amount of money the Caraviello family received
after the boating incident, date and time
of the event, documents on Richard F Caraviello's behavior,
all essential for the transparency Caraviello claims is part
of his campaign for mayor - transparency he claims is superior to Mayor Lungo-Koehn's.
Again, see Exhibit A. (attached)
regarding Caraviello's claim of being transparent.
2)I request the document that is Mr. Caraviello's oath of office
as city councilor for the past twelve years
One document from one of the elections is fine unless the documents
for oath of office changed over the years.
3)The minutes of the council meeting where all seven councilors
violated their oath of office, instigated by Rick Caraviello
The city council of Medford voted on the first Council meeting of 2021 t
o deny Viglione the opportunity to speak about
their salaries, a violation of Viglione's civil rights and the oath of office the council took.
The "transparency" Caraviello is running his campaign on,
is a lie,
just as Caraviello committed perjury
in criminal court 1/31/17.
These documents are essential
to give the voters information that
Caraviello is a fraud and his campaign has less truth
than thrice arrested Donald Trump's.
Caraviello was the censorship perpetrator but got his six other colleagues
to spit on their oath of office (which they took that night,)
Isaac Bruce "Zac" Bears - the councilor in a police report
when he disturbed the peace, Nicole Morell, Justin Tseng, Kit Collins,
Adam Knight - the councilor charged with "wanton destruction" by the MPD,
and George Scarpelli.
4)Documents requested on Caraviello's interaction with MPD
when he weaponized MPD to attack a journalist.
On January 31, 2017, Richard Caraviello and his accomplice,
Detective Sgt. Paul Mackowski lost in criminal court,
Cambridge District Court.
Caraviello lied in a police report and was never held accountable because of
malfeasance by retired Detective Sergeant Paul Mackowski.
I have that police report.
What is being requested are internal documents between
Mackowski and Caraviello, Paul Covino, Kevin Faller and
any other officers involved in this conspiracy against a journalist.
All the officers named and Mr. Caraviello wasted monies from
Medford taxpayers and Massachusetts State taxpayers.
Any e mails between Caraviello and Mackowski and the other MPD offenders,
notes, text messages which document their wrongful conduct.
Medford voters have a right to know how Caraviello and his
interactions with the police department cause a clear and present danger
to Medford residents and their civil rights.
Police chief Leo A. Sacco Jr., and current chief Jack Buckley never held
Mackowski (or Caraviello) accountable for their wrongful conduct after they lost in court;
which the judge was appalled by.
I need all documents regarding this elder abuse and attack on the civil rights
of a minority person, a same sex person who
was violently attacked by Edward P. Finn,
the city clerk of Medford. The voters need to see
Caraviello's misdeeds and what can happen
to a citizen when angry
Caraviello weaponizes the Brady-infested police department
to harass a journalist. Also note, after Caraviello's
spectacular loss in criminal court,
Caraviello stalked his victim on Salem Street, a second time
on Salem Street at Littlest Laundry, on Central and on Garfield.
These documents are essential as
Viglione is writing
a lengthy article on why Caraviello
is unfit to be dog catcher, let alone mayor.
Mr. Caraviello also committed perjury when asked if he ever "moonlighted"
on the Medford City Council. Under oath, the mayoral candidate
said "no," when - fact is - when Caraviello failed to vote on a "pay to park" video,
walked away from the council which was in session, he walked up to Joseph Viglione
and said that he had to "pick up a client" for his limo service.
Even if Caraviello didn't pick up a client, he clearly left the council
while it was in session and - being self-employed -
it was obvious he was working for his limousine service, not city hall.
Who would want to vote
for a mayor who won't show up for work?
A)Caraviello walked out of council chambers, failed to do the
duty as a public servant that he is
paid for,
B)Caraviello lied under oath to judge and jury regarding his working for
his own company when the city council was in session.
Moonlighting.
There is great public interest in Mr. Caraviello's bad behavior and his conspiracy
with violent city clerk Edward P. Finn as well as the MPD's Mackowski,
Covino and Faller and any fees for these documents must be waived.
I am developing a television special with this information
and will hold the mayor's office accountable if the issuing authority,
Ms Lungo-Koehn, refuses to air the television special.
Mayoral candidate Caraviello's false testimony against the victim -
a senior violently attacked by clerk Ed Finn, and Mackowski's extortion of the victim:
demanding that Joe Viglione drop the charges against Finn or a phony
"witness intimidation" charge would be filed on Viglione, was disgusting.
Viglione contacted his lawyer and dropped the charges on advice of counsel.
In December Mackowski filed the phony charges, ostensibly because he was
aggravated by a public records request regarding the then mayor,
Muccini-Burke, and allegations of a sex crime at the Medford High School.
As usual, Viglione prevailed and
it was another black eye on the
Brady-infested Medford Police Dept.
The judge seemed to be very angry with Mackowski and Caraviello's
wrongful conduct and dismissed the phony, frivolous case, the malicious
abuse of process designed by Caraviello and Mackowski.
The citizens need to know this prior to an election for every citizen
and taxpayer is
at risk with a maniac like Caraviello weaponizing the
Brady-infested police department to go after his enemies,
like Richard Nixon on steroids.
This public records request is essential for voters
to see bad behavior by Caraviello
and a failure to return the information in a
timely fashion will be noted in my writings
and on the TV and radio specials I am preparing on Election 2023.
My radio show airs once a week, but I have it on platforms on the internet
for the public to access at any time.
It gets even more revolting, the MPD harassed Viglione repeatedly after Viglione
helped get the videotape which solved the crime at Tony's gas,
helped the MPD with catching the perpetrators of the smashed window at the dental office
on Salem Street, and when the MPD was given a floppy disc this
reporter received from a confidential informant regarding a
fifteen year old from a pizza business in Medford allegedly
used in a porn video that was hushed up by the police.
Hushed up ostensibly to protect a friend of Mayor McGlynn's.
This notation is pertinent as it seems ex mayor McGlynn is behind the Caraviello campaign.
These misdeeds need to be on the public record as the MPD and city hall
have been less than transparent in these requests
for documents, though Viglione has prevailed most of the time.
Viglione will also urge the public to file a public records request to
obtain this record request and its responses.
The public has a serious right to know about the candidates running for mayor.
That the Medford Police were seemingly afraid
of an alleged sex offender
alleged friend of McGlynn's -
the ex mayor who is the alleged force behind
the current Caraviello campaign, and did NOTHING
to protect the 15 year old victim
is the very flower of MPD misconduct.
Essentially, the MPD and Caraviello care nothing
about a sexually abused 15 year old
and, instead, waste time attacking a journalist
and costing him thousands of dollars in legal fees.
The public needs to know how dangerous
Caraviello is when engaging
with a corrupt police force
(see L'Italien Report or Viglione's revelation of 117 cops
on the Brady list he obtained from D.A. Marian Ryan's office,
published in Modern Cop Magazine.)
I recognize that you may charge reasonable costs for copies, as well as for
personnel time needed to comply with this request but as stated
above, they are of great public interest and the fees must be waived.
We don't want another convicted felon incident like Paul Comeau Jr.
masquerading as Paul Ruseau
so that the public is not informed in a timely fashion on Ruseau's bad behavior.
Mr. Caraviello is one of the least transparent politicians in Medford,
so he lies on his Facebook page about transparency,
which is why these documents are so very important
during an election cycle,
the most protected speech in America.
The Public Records Law requires you to provide me
with a written response within 10 business days. If you cannot comply
with my request, you are statutorily required to provide an explanation in writing.
Please send the documents via e mail, or
I am happy to pick them up at Janice Spencer's law office in City Hall.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Joe Viglione
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn MA 01888
