Guest guest Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 The Boston Herald is now on the story as well as the great work of the Globe. In regards to Tom , AG Reilly has known of even before he was elected AG. I contacted him while he was still a State DA. I also contacted then State DA Delahunt about the corruption. Delahunt is now a US Congressman. So AG Reilly has personally known since, at least, 1998. Delahunt has known for about 4 years. Another interesting fact is that the Mass. IG had a former FBI Agent who was suppose to have been investigating our complaints. The Agent never called or contacted us and this was first known in 1997. I think this same former FBI Agent testified in the corruption trial of former FBI Agent Connolly where he was charged with taking bribes from murders. Also, the Dept. of Public Safety said the Mass. State police were going to contact us to investigate our charges of corruption and guess what, they never did. Let us not forget the sworn affidavit mentioned in the 1993 Barnstable town Council memo about payoffs and a sworn affidavit. It was destroyed while I had a Freedom of Information request for it. My request was out for over 5 years. Why did the Secretary of state not get it and have it secured as they were suppose to? I'm told the affidavit is from an FBI Agent that says a building inspector, licensed by Tom office, admitted taking "free vacations" from a convicted Federal felon. 3 for 3. As they say, sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime. Ken Moulton State worker pair has links to mob money-laundering SPECIAL REPORT/by Wisniewski and Wells Monday, October 6, 2003 Two high-ranking licensing officials in the state Department of Public Safety played a part in a money-laundering scheme in the 1980s with a major drug trafficker, the Herald has learned. F. Feeney, the now-retired Acting Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety, and his son T. Feeney, who is currently an inspector in the department, provided a down payment in 1985 for the anticipated purchase of a hotel on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. According to public records and a source familiar with the transaction, the Feeneys' $50,000 payment, made through their Braintree company Norfolk Waste Energy Power Co. Inc., was part of a complex plan by drug kingpin ph P. Murray to launder more than $7 million in illicit drug profits. At the time, Murray was a financial partner in the drug trafficking business with Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant J. ``Whitey'' Bulger. Details of the Feeneys' role in the money-laundering scheme are emerging as state and federal law enforcement agencies continue to investigate licensing irregularities in the Department of Public Safety. Feeney, 70, joined the department as a district engineering inspector in February 1985 and served as acting deputy commissioner from August 1992 to April 1994. He remained an inspector until he retired with an accidental disability pension in November 1994. His son, Feeney, 41, has been a district engineering inspector since 1992, department records show. Whether or not the Feeneys are subjects of the current state licensing investigation could not be determined. However, they were at the center of a licensing scandal in the mid-1990s which remains under investigation. In 1994, they were temporarily suspended from their duties as inspectors while federal investigators probed an alleged scam involving the leaking of licensing exams for hoisters and pipefitters to a private testing company run by a friend of the Feeneys. Feeney went out on a disability pension in the midst of that investigation. In late 1984, Murray and his associates, through a middle man named E. Fitzgerald of Las Vegas, negotiated a deal to buy the Halcyon Days Hotel on St. Lucia for $3 million from the government of the island nation. The plan was to convert the hotel to a casino and in the spring of 1985, the Feeneys provided to the sellers a $50,000 down payment drawn on the Braintree Savings Bank account of Norfolk Waste Energy Power. A letter signed by Feeney accompanied the check. ``Please note that I, Feeney, in my capacity as president of Norfolk Waste Energy Power Company, has (sic) been instructed by the investors to forward a bank check for $50,000 as deposit under purchase agreement dated Dec. 28, 1984, to be held in your client's fund account pending completion of terms of contract,'' Feeney wrote. The bid failed when the St. Lucian government balked at the plan to open a casino and another bidder, Club Med, was selected to develop the property. The Feeneys' downpayment was not returned to Norfolk Waste Energy Power's bank account, however, but instead was forwarded to the bank account of Halcyon Days Investment Group, a company set up in January 1985 in St. Lucia by Murray's associate, Fitzgerald, who has since died. Fitzgerald was convicted of racketeering and money laundering in Massachusetts in 1993 for his role in hiding more than $7 million of Murray's money in a series of shell corporations in the Caribbean, including Halcyon Days Investment Group. Neither nor Feeney were indicted or prosecuted in that case. One of the people listed as a director of Norfolk Waste Energy Power when it was formed in 1984 was Frye, the owner of Frye Insurance Agency in Braintree. In an interview, Frye said he knew Feeney as one of his past clients, but was shocked when told his name was recorded in state records as a director of Feeney's company. ``I'm absolutely flabbergasted,'' Frye said. ``It's just unbelievable that he would put my name down on something like that.'' Frye did recall Feeney told him once that he had a goverment license to construct a power plant on one of the Caribbean Islands, but said Feeney never proposed the two men go into business together. Murray, who was also involved with Bulger in running guns to the IRA, was shot to death at his Maine vacation home in 1992, allegedly by his wife during a domestic dispute. He was killed three years after he began feeding information to the Justice Department about Bulger and corrupt FBI agents. Feeney's Boston attorney, J. , said: ``I can't believe you're writing this story that's 20 years old. That was completely investigated by authorities and nothing came of it.'' Feeney could not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, the licensing and inspection division in the Department of Public Safety where Feeney works and his father used to work is under investigation for the manner in which it has dispensed state licenses. Those licenses are required for tradesmen working with heavy equipment, such as boilers, oil burners, cranes and refrigerators, or who work at facilities such as nuclear power plants and amusement parks, or on major construction projects, like the Central Artery. Last week, the Department of Public Safety's top inspector, L. , was placed on administrative leave. State Attorney General Reilly's office said it searched the public safety office in Taunton and removed licensing and other records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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