Sad for Sal
Years ago I was an attorney working for a small firm that engaged in a white-collar and political corruption defense practice. The one lesson I took from being close to those clients was one of...
View ArticlePiling on
As some of you know I contribute a monthly column to Commonwealth Magazine online. My most recent piece has just been posted and I am going to link to it here. I am in lonely protest of the “three...
View ArticleCriminalizing Politics
Will Justice be served if Tim Cahill goes to jail for spending taxpayer money on lottery ads in the midst of the 2010 campaign? The question will hinge largely on what the ads were seeking to do: prop...
View ArticleProfessorU on Emily Rooney
Professor Ubertaccio joined Glen Johnson of the Boston Globe and Pat Wilmot of Common Cause to discuss the charges against Tim Cahill on the Emily Rooney Show.
View ArticleIrish Pols 2, Puritan Prosecutors 0
Lost in the wake of the Marathon bombing and the senate race was John O’Brien’s good news-bad news week. The good news for the former Probation commissioner was he was found not guilty of bribery...
View ArticlePatronage Heaven
The Boston Herald has been having a field day with the latest developments in the U.S. Attorney’s prosecution of former Probation Department commissioner John J. O’Brien. Should we be “shocked –...
View ArticleExpulsion in the House – Frank Gethro, 1906
Painful as the expulsion of Rep. Carlos Henriquez may have been for House members, it could have been worse. When Representative Frank Gethro was expelled in 1906, he was at the center of a bribery...
View ArticleProbation Mess: Go for the Jugular, Charlie
Yesterday my colleague Professor Duquette counseled Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker to forego attacks on the Democrats over corruption. Professor Duquette’s reasoning was that an...
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