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IT ISN'T FRANKIE'S PIGGY BANK!

Medford's community media station has been hijacked by four individuals.


Allegedly, Arthur Alan Deluca isn't even allowed to vote as a board member, and might even be getting additional pay to "program" the station along with alleged "free membership for life", Christmas bonus "Bomber jacket" (allegedly) and alleged free bus passes.


When Mayor McGlynn shirks his responsibility to the people of Medford, the wolves take advantage of the hen house
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what a charade: THE ACM DOESN'T KNOW HOW STATIONS FUNCTION; IT IS A NON-PROFIT THAT ASKS FOR MONEY BEFORE IT GIVES OUT AWARDS.  YOU HAVE TO PAY IN ORDER TO SUBMIT A SHOW.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE BEST SHOW IN AMERICA WINS, THAT MEANS IF A STATION FORKS OVER $1500.00 THE ACM MIGHT FEEL AS OBLIGATED AS NELL ESCOBAR COAKLEY AT THE MEDFORD TRANSCRIPT TO PUBLISH PUFF PIECES ABOUT HER CLIENT - MCGLYNN CITY HALL - THAN WRITE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MALFEASANCE AT A LOCAL NON-PROFIT.

http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/about-us

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ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY MEDIA

In order for democracy to flourish, people must be active  participants in their government, educated to think critically and free  to express themselves.
Founded in 1976, the Alliance represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media center throughout the country. The ACM works to protect the interests of these access centers and those who use PEG facilities and equipment to advance their causes through cable television and the Internet. We also represent:

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Commonwealth of Mass. Constitution and Public Access TV rights in Medford Massachusetts

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The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts protects our Access TV rights in the City of Medford, Mass.

http://www.malegislature.gov/laws/constitution



Access TV

Article XVI. [The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.] [See Amendments, Art. XLVIII, The Initiative, II, sec. 2.] [Annulled and superseded by Amendments, Art. LXXVII.


There is no public access TV in the city of Medford, just as I had warned the residents over ten years ago.
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(Notice, there's a BIG GAP between examples 1 and 2; be patient)
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1)TV3 Medford SUED THE CITY AND LOST
---rather than facilitate programming, their mandate, the staff at TV3 told auditors it was owed $55,000.00 from the City when the Auditors could NOT substantiate monies.

a)Had Frank Pilleri stepped down and allowed an honest and fair election on January 19, 2008, we would have legitimate answers - not the interference from Frank Pilleri keeping the auditors (paid by taxpayers) from doing their job.

b)The monies TV 3 sued for were NOT the $55,000 the auditors asked about.  The City Council is receiving 4 pages from the court case tonight.  Let Frankie give the council his mumbo jumbo.  Especially since Frank lost the court case.

c)If the auditors were told - absolutely - that TV3 was owed that money, and if TV3 lost the court case (which was never made public until the City Solicitor e mailed me on Saturday, May 25, 2013 confirming information that I obtained in Middlesex Superior Court on Thursday, May 23, 2013 while looking for any court case MCC may have filed on Developer Fustolo's 5 High Street), then something is amiss.

Pilleri is using a $57,500.00 figure that he projected he would win in court - which he didn't - to attempt to satisfy outside auditors from Melanson Heath & Co PC when they probed about $55,000.00

d)That's a difference of $2500.00, no small chunk of change (two households could get a year's each worth of cable with that huge amount of money)
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2)For only $25.00 more, Anthony Pope of San Luis Obispo faced a year in jail.  (Confession from Pope below)

http://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/anthony-pope-former-head-of-san-luis.html

Anthony Pope, the former head of the San Luis Obispo County Public Access television station, faces up to a year in jail for embezzling $2,525 from the station.

e)So Pilleri can't account for credit card / ATM card receipts that Dawn Natalia allegedly received which totaled about $5,000.00, TV3 only accounting for $504.00 or so.  The Board of Directors claimed it was for videotape for members...well...

1)They have no real membership that can be verified

2)Members have to PAY for tape at TV3, so...show us the receipts that 100 members paid $50.00 each in tape costs. It's very simple...IF that information exists and IF the Board of TV3 is not lying and hiding something and IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF ...lots of IF's and Frankie's word isn't worth SPIT!
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Here's what happens when outside auditors get to do their job, as with Stanley Komins and West Medford Hillside Little League:

TV executive pleads no contest to embezzlement

April 21, 2011 (ONLY 2 YEARS AGO; there are 3 new cases, Connecticut and Taunton, Mass in the past 7 months!)

http://calcoastnews.com/2011/04/tv-executive-pleads-no-contest-to-embezzlement/

The former head of San Luis Obispo County Public Access television pleaded no contest on April 11 to charges he embezzled funds from the nonprofit. [NewTimes]
Anthony Pope was arrested on April 6 for embezzling $2,525 from the station.
In August, Pope secured funding for the purchase of electronic equipment for the station. He, however, allegedly returned the equipment before it could be used by the TV station. Prosecutors said he used the money to buy personal items including laptop computers.

After serving only five months as chairman of the nonprofit’s board, Pope was removed from the lead position in August because of complaints that he “pissed people off and burned a lot of bridges.” During his time as chairman, the nonprofit’s relationship with Charter Communications soured and the public access station lost its studio.
Pope faces up to a year in jail, restitution and three years of formal probation. His sentencing is set for May 9.
He remains in San Luis Obispo County Jail with bond set at $35,000.
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3)WHERE IS PROJECT OPEN VOICE
Pilleri allegedly pissed off Comcast's new access TV platform (probably over me!!!) and now POV has kicked Medford off of the front page where it once was!
 

 http://www.projectopenvoice.com/

You have to now click on the bottom right hand of the page: VISIT OUR TEST SITE

Even the "You Tube" version of Access Comcast is pawning off on people (so much for Channel 1 use for residents) is being slighted thanks to tainted access TV.
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CITY COUNCIL PLEASE NOTE:
Project Open Voice was brought in to communities that had bad access TV so that Comcast could satisfy the FCC in its purchase of NBC.  Tv3 took it out of context and didn't tell the truth to residents - Open Voice was brought in - most likely - because Medford access TV was so very bad...the reputation of Dirty Talk Live, a juvenile station manager and the Judge Jackson-Thompson blemish and chilling failure of an audit!


More Frankie lies:
TV3 station management did the usual out-of-context spin that TV3 was "awarded" Open Voice because it had stuffed ACM award ballots.  Snakes.  Bad information, not truthful with cable tv subscribers funding it, and even McGlynn we hear started repeating the lies.

Unbelievable.  For 1 person to have sole oversight makes that 1 person ripe for blackmail.   That's why there needs to be a CABLE TV ADVISORY BOARD, yet a Sr. Fraud Investigator for the Commonwealth was sitting at the hearing last Tuesday at City Hall and not yet making a statement.  Betcha the Sr. Fraud Investigator is writing a very quiet report to a government agency...but I'll shut up now...perhaps revealing too much."

Opposition Leader to Sr. Fraud Investigator:

"When are we doing dinner to Discuss TV3, end of 2017"

Fraud Investigator: In 2013.

OK.  At least we have a dinner date to discuss Frankie and the boys.
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THERE ARE SO MANY PISSED OFF CABLE TV SUBSCRIBERS IN MEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS THAT THE CITY SOLICITOR HAD TO BRING IN A POLICE DETAIL BECAUSE FRANK PILLERI'S TV3 WAS REPORTED ( BY MATT HABERSTROH ALLEGEDLY TO THE CITY SOLICITOR) THAT THEY WERE GOING TO USE PHYSICAL VIOLENCE TO STOP PEOPLE FROM TESTIFYING.


THE ONE PERSON THE POLICE REMOVED WAS TV3'S OWN LAWYER, THE MAYOR'S COUSIN.

ONE OF THE LAWYER'S OWN CLIENTS, WHOSE NAME CLOSELY RESEMBLES MEDFORD COMMUNITY CABLEVISION (THE NITWIT USED THE WRONG PLEADING IN A COURT CASE) SAID TO ME ON THE PHONE:

"HOW DO YOU SPELL LAWYER?

L-I-A-R

That's from ANOTHER client of TV3's lawyer

Yikes! 

Makes the "sinister" Johnny Granara (not my word for Granara, someone posted that on the internet) look like a day at the beach.  Of course I met the notorious Mr. Granara for the first time yesterday at the cemetery...and escaped...at least this time... 

From Dawn and Larry's next masterpiece (NOT) "Fright of the Living Dead" 

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Nevada Public-access TV director gets jail time

Public-access TV director gets jail time 

 http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20040916/NEWS/109160015

Every weekend for the next 90 weeks Craig Swope will serve a 180-day jail sentence for embezzling nearly $500,000 from Carson Access Television where he was director, a judge determined Wednesday."I want you to remember every week what you did to those folks," said Judge Norman Robison in suspending a five-year prison sentence in lieu of five years' probation. "You're now a felon and you'll live with that."Swope, 55, pleaded guilty in June to one count of embezzlement for gambling $500,000 of the station's money between January 1999 and June 2003. Prior to confessing his gambling addiction to the CAT …

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CHICAGO - Cable-access Aide Faces Embezzlement Hearing

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Cable-access Aide Faces Embezzlement Hearing

 April 3, 1995

(This is when the editor was cleaning up two access stations up north.   The suspicious Paul A. Camuso tried to kill the messenger on 5/21; he failed.  Camuso said "That's not what they said!"  Who's "they?"   Are you going to believe the Pizza Delivery Boy with the failed limo service or your own eyes!!!!! )

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As the former treasurer of Evanston's public-access television station faces a court hearing Thursday on charges of embezzling $25,000, officials of the non-profit company have been on the defensive, complaining about a lack of public trust in their judgment and fiscal policies.

Confidence, in fact, seemed in short supply as the words "cover-up" and "conspiracy" were being used to describe the latest irregularities at the Evanston Community Television Corp., or ECTC, one of the largest public-access operations in the Chicago area.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-04-13/news/9504130065_1_embezzlement-charges-forgery-and-burglary

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alleged THEFT at Austin Texas Access TV

An arrest warrant has been issued for the former director of Austin's community access cable TV stations, who is accused of stealing more than $350,000 from the city-supported nonprofit.

(SOUND FAMILIAR?)

Villarreal stole the money by making 94 unauthorized withdrawals from the Austin Community Access Center's accounts from January 2000 to September 2004.

Villarreal had not been arrested late Thursday and could not be reached for comment. His lawyer also could not be reached for comment.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/media/actv_villareal_accused_theft.htm

(SOUND FAMILIAR MEDFORD, MASS RESIDENTS?)
Over a year ago we discovered a move by managemant of ACTV to restrict free speech. We conducted our own investigation and covertly supplied the district attorney's office with much of their case. 

We began our investigation simply to prove that members of the management were attempting to violate the charter of Access Television. What we found was much bigger and much worse. 

I cannot talk about much of what I know because it might aid others who are clearly involved in evading prosecution.

We were getting ready to break our silence because it looked as though the police were never going to move, but now they are, and for that the district attorney, the city of austin and the police department need to be commended. This is what they are supposed to be doing, not running warrantless checkpoints on Austin roads.

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Letter to Chief Sacco Monday, May 27, 2013 5:42 PM

Monday, May 27, 2013 5:42 PM

Dear Chief Sacco:

I respectfully request that you look into the recent Fall River TV embezzlement charges brought by the Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Patrick O. Bomberg, along with state police and Rehoboth police Detective Brian Ramos.

Please bring this to the attention of Marian Ryan, the new Middlesex District Attorney.


The November 2012 Connecticut case involving access TV
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/ex-president-accused-of-bilking-public-access-tv

and the recent April 2013 case in the Taunton area.

When one looks at the Melanson Heath & Co PC audit that the Mayor paid 10K in taxpayer monies for, it is chilling to read about membership monies or $5,000.00 that couldn't be accounted for.


http://insidemedford.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/melanson-health-mcc.pdf

Rehoboth public TV exec arraigned on embezzlement charges

By Marc Larocque

Taunton Gazette Staff Reporter

Posted Apr 23, 2013 @ 02:21 PM

FALL RIVER —

The 77-year-old Rehoboth man accused of embezzling more than $110,000 and equipment through a role at his town’s local-access television network was arraigned on Tuesday morning in Fall River Superior Court.


Schagrin has worked for RePAC since at least 2007, Fredette said. He has been a Rehoboth resident since 1990 and is a former chemical engineer.
Contact Marc Larocque at mlarocque@tauntongazette.com.

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Fall River TV Embezzlement, April 2013

JUDGE VEARY, WHERE ARE YOU?

MEDFORD NEEDS YOU, JUDGE VEARY!!!

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Rehoboth public TV exec arraigned on embezzlement charges

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FALL RIVER —

The 77-year-old Rehoboth man accused of embezzling more than $110,000 and equipment through a role at his town’s local-access television network was arraigned on Tuesday morning in Fall River Superior Court.

Edward Schagrin, the vice president of the Rehoboth Public Access Corp., pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $5,000 cash bail by Judge Raymond Veary. He was bailed out and the court never took him into custody, his lawyer said.

MARTHA COAKLEY ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL...INTENTIONALLY FOR HER PAL MCGLYNN!!!
The embezzlement charges were brought against Schagrin in Superior Court after a six-month investigation into RePAC, coordinated by Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Patrick O. Bomberg, along with state police and Rehoboth police Detective Brian Ramos.

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AA MEETING
Hi - my name is Jack Komins...and I'm Stanley Dempsey, and the Mayor made us do it!
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Prosecutors said Schagrin, acting as a RePAC board member for several years, embezzled more than $110,000, as well as video recording/editing equipment from the public access station and the town government of Rehoboth. The scheme, according to the investigation, went on for several years.
Through his lawyer, Schagrin denied all charges and suggested that the investigation may have been politically motivated. 


In addition to the $5,000 bail, Judge Veary ordered Schagrin not to transfer any money or property from RePAC accounts during while the case is pending.


(Medford residents -does this sound familiar?)

“Mr. Schagrin feels that the money was earned and the properties were the corporation’s and that it was handled within the confines of the law,” said Fredette, who characterized the case as “complicated” and added that the timeline for the case to be adjudicated extends to 2014.

Schagrin has worked for RePAC since at least 2007, Fredette said. He has been a Rehoboth resident since 1990 and is a former chemical engineer.

Contact Marc Larocque at mlarocque@tauntongazette.com.

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Uncle Bob Is Going DOWN!

More dirt on Maiocco to be unleashed.

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and it is going to be oh oh for Uncle Bob!

Just wait! 

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Understanding P/E/G Access - and what the public can expect

Public, Educational, and Governmental Access Channels ("PEG Channels")

Pursuant to Section 611 of the Communications Act, local franchising authorities may require cable operators to set aside channels for public, educational, or governmental ("PEG") use.

Public access channels are available for use by the general public.  They are usually administered either by the cable operator or by a third party designated by the franchising authority.
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Wilmington, North Carolina considers an access TV Channel


Council last discussed the idea–proposed by a local nonprofit to give Wilmington a new platform for expression–in January and left it with a number of questions about liabilities, how the channel might sustain itself and who would operate it.

http://portcitydaily.com/2013/05/02/city-to-revisit-public-access-tv-idea/


“Public access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content and television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels,” defines the Southeastern Alliance for Community Change (SEACC), a local nonprofit whose vision is “WPA-TV”–for “Wilmington Public Access”–running programming “by and for the people of Wilmington.” 

But a true public access channel is lacking.
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The Role of Public Access TV in Covering Local Government, Debates

 

In recent years, "public service media" has emerged as the term describing all that's right with public media, community media, and non-profit journalism, and how those three sectors could be collaborating to function more perfectly in a new telecommunications-reformed promised land. Largely overlooked in these future of media discussions are two types of simple, non-edited televised event recordings -- local government meetings and local election debates coverage.

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2013/04/the-role-of-public-access-tv-in-covering-local-government-debates093.html


In January this year the Alliance for Community Media published results of a local elections coverage survey it conducted among its PEG access provider members. The responses the ACM received -- especially to its questions about the barriers to producing such programming -- would be an excellent place to start the collaborative conversation about how the existing 1) infrastructures of public media and community media could work together to 2) create and 3) curate more of this programming, in ways which would enhance viewer 4) connections -- that is, citizen engagement.
Examining and exploring these pathways to collaborations would be a fruitful step towards crafting new public policies that would create a more robust and provably useful public service media system.

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EX MAYOR THE STAR OF P/E/G TV

Rich Archbold: Public television returns to Long Beach with former mayor's new show

Former mayor starts new show on nonprofits

O'Neill is no stranger to the TV camera.

While she was mayor for three terms from 1994 to 2006, she started and hosted "Heart of the City," an interview program with public officials and community leaders.

"Ever since I left City Hall, telling the stories of nonprofits is something I've always wanted to do," she said. "I hope this will bring people together. "
She winced when I said she was the Joan Rivers of Long Beach TV. "More like Barbara Walters," she said gracefully.

O'Neill's return to the television studio coincides with the return of public access television to Long Beach.

 http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_23070172/rich-archbold-public-television-returns-long-beach-former

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Going to the Authorities on the Mayor - Public Records Request on TV3 still not replied to by McGlynn...McGlynn playing games with P/E/G monies

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MAYOR QUITS RACE!
May 1, 2013 (see below)
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With allegations of at least one disreputable employee in the office of Sheriff Koutoujian, after the despicable activities of the crooked Jimmy DiPaola were uncovered, now comes the failure of Michael J. McGlynn to be honest with the cable TV subscribers forking over millions of dollars in P/E/G monies that the Issuing Authority abuses with impunity.
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Under Fire, the Mayor of Pittsburgh Quits Race

 Luke Ravenstahl, who at 26 became Pittsburgh’s youngest mayor ever, abruptly dropped his bid for re-election Friday amid a federal investigation of the city’s Police Department and the forced resignation last month of the police chief. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/us/politics/luke-ravenstahl-pittsburgh-mayor-drops-re-election-bid.html?_r=0 

IT BEGS THE QUESTION, was the Mayor banging Sheriff Mullen's wife?
http://sheriffalleghenycounty.com/ 

At a news conference, Mr. Ravenstahl, a Democrat, cited the “grueling demands” of the job and the “many nasty and vicious allegations” made against him as reasons for withdrawing from the race. “I know without a doubt that I did nothing wrong, and that is not why this decision was made,” Mr. Ravenstahl said about the investigation. “I know folks won’t believe that. Maybe you guys don’t even believe that. But over time, the truth will prevail and it’ll come out — not as quickly as I’d like it to, obviously, but it will.”

Mr. Ravenstahl said that he would serve out the remainder of his term, but that he had no plans after the Nov. 5 mayoral election, when his successor will be chosen.

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What were the vicious, nasty allegations?

Did Mr. Ravenstahl have an affair with Sheriff Mullen's wife?

Did Mr. Ragenstahl have Sheriff Mullen's wife as his secretary?

Why would he leave the race? 

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