Weaver95: GAT_00: That's an impressive dedication to massive corruption and abuse.

indeed! I wonder if he was also getting a pension from his former job as a legislator...?

As I understand it, the state legislature is attempting to block it in light of this greedy asshat's underhanded crap.

/unamused local Masshole.

hubiestubert: Corruption in Boston any major city, east or west coast?

You don't say...

Fixed.

Originally hired by McLaughlin in 2001, she had worked her way up to a $99,000 salary, including a $10,000 extra stipend the board of directors gave her in 2009 for "added . . . duties'' after another employee left.

I'll bet.

Does his job require him to be in the office more than he was? I'm pretty sure he wasn't doing something like putting widgets in a slot that requires him to be in a certain place. This is the world that we live in now, a lot of jobs don't require a person to be in a certain physical location. This sounds like it is shaping up to be a lot of false rage. The only problem I see is him sleeping with a subordinate.

The records show he didn't go to Chelsea at all on almost half the working days in 2011, spending 47 weekdays in Maine and Florida with his top assistant and close personal friend, Linda Thibodeau.

A friend and a job with benefits.

Wait until they discover all of the kickbacks and bribes.
Or is that simply part of "doing businesss" in the public service sector in Boston?

Agreed the salary was outrageous for what he did -- but I have yet to see anyone ask the question on whether he was getting business taken care of.

I mean did he handle his stuff or did all these low income properties fall apart because he never showed up.

Not defending him at all because if he's guilty of corruption throw his ass in jail for a long long time. I just want to know if he was accomplishing what needed to be accomplished via phone/email?

Wow. What a farking scum bag. I hope he goes to jail and has to pay back every penny.

Who was his boss?
Who is supposed to be keeping an eye on what checks are being written?
There's got to be somebody higher up to share the blame.
Everyone has a boss.

the government will go after this small fry to appease the people while ignoring the big fish CEOs and banks that do way worse

Meh. My Alderman does less.
/The Chicago way

ongbok: Does his job require him to be in the office more than he was? I'm pretty sure he wasn't doing something like putting widgets in a slot that requires him to be in a certain place. This is the world that we live in now, a lot of jobs don't require a person to be in a certain physical location. This sounds like it is shaping up to be a lot of false rage. The only problem I see is him sleeping with a subordinate.

Gee ... wonder how I know you didn't read the fark'n article?

/ya I know - welcome to fark

If I didn't know better, I would have expected that story to be about someone in NJ.

FTA: He conducted other personal business by phone, calling credit card companies and financial institutions repeatedly. He called a toll-free number to learn how to download an app for the TV show "The X Factor.'' McLaughlin also dabbled in real estate.

I kind of love how the reporters couldn't resist putting this in the article.

This does not move me
Even though I've seen the movie.

ZAZ: The housing authority gets HUD funding and he may have lied to the federal government too.

Well, an EIV check will bring out the facts to a judge. And this would be a federal judge, mind you, not one of those bought-and-paid-for Wop bastiges in Masslolia, And the judge may decide to set him up with a payback plan. This plan would be based on his earnings at the time, and he would need to make a monthly contrition to the feds.

In a Real America, he would be given a farking cardboard box to sleep in for the winter, a felony record, so he wouldn't qualify for public housing assistance, and some brown time with Bubba,

Michael E. McLaughlin [...] put in only 15 full workdays in Chelsea all year to earn his extraordinary paycheck

Does his job require him to actually BE in Chelsea? As a manager, he likely has people locally to handle the busy work. Management doesn't really require that much physical presence...

I live here shows how dirty this city is..it is filled with illegals and useless cops ringing up 300 tickets for stop signs.

Honest Bender: Michael E. McLaughlin [...] put in only 15 full workdays in Chelsea all year to earn his extraordinary paycheck

Does his job require him to actually BE in Chelsea? As a manager, he likely has people locally to handle the busy work. Management doesn't really require that much physical presence...

YES

FTA: "As a local official, most of your duties are right within the jurisdiction of the agency you operate,'' said Thomas J. Connelly Jr., executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials."

he third check McLaughlin received on his last day - $5,133 for what McLaughlin said was 6.3 days of unused personal time - does not appear to be allowed under his contract. McLaughlin's contract specifically authorized selling unused vacation and sick time back to the authority, but said nothing about unused personal time, which is time off for which the employee does not have to give an explanation.

The state stopped payment on the $5,133 check as well, pending an investigation.

aaaahhh ha!! GOT YOU!

You may have taken us for nearly $4M in salary you got away clean with, but NOT this $5,133 check! It stops here! I'm talkin' about a LINE in the SAND here, Dude, over which you DO NOT CROSS...

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T: Honest Bender: Michael E. McLaughlin [...] put in only 15 full workdays in Chelsea all year to earn his extraordinary paycheck

Does his job require him to actually BE in Chelsea? As a manager, he likely has people locally to handle the busy work. Management doesn't really require that much physical presence...

YES

FTA: "As a local official, most of your duties are right within the jurisdiction of the agency you operate,' said Thomas J. Connelly Jr., executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials."

That doesn't really address what I said. His responsibilities are in the district (duh). But does that mean he is required to physically be there to do his job? I can delegate just as well over the phone as I can in person.

Man On Fire: hubiestubert: Corruption in any major city, east or west coast almost all levels of our government?

You don't say...

Fixed.

vudukungfu: He is...The 1%

Here's some more shenanigans ........ (new window)

relcec: if the dude can do his work in another town from his blackberry then so be it. he's not an hourly employee, is he? he can't get everything done then he works more than 40 hours, if he can he works less. he got high marks from HUD apparently, which I guess would speak up if his fiefdom looked like shiat.
the problem here is they were paying him a 1% salary for doing $65k a year work.

There is also that sort of boss, who actually makes everything run better by merely absenting him or herself...

I couldn't find any pictures of her.

Public service workers, at least the highly paid ones, should be required to have tracking implants that transmit to a computer their movements during the scheduled working hours. The computer can be programmed to red-flag any deviations/abnormalities and automatically publish it to a public website for taxpayer review. If it can be sufficiently explained as work-related then it's OK. If not, sayonara sucker.

I still say that state and federal employess should be paid no more then 50,000 a year with regualr benefits. They need to get a second job if they have to and live the way the rest of us does. No one should get rich working for the state.

vudukungfu: He is...The 1%

Or 99% of the democrats...

Wow this guy sounds like a real a-hole:

"Embattled former Chelsea Housing Authority chief Michael E. McLaughlin once used $40,000 in authority funds to settle a sexual harassment claim that came about after a top aide humiliated a manager by giving her sex toys at her retirement party.

The aide - described by many employees as the longtime close companion of McLaughlin - presented the toys at the manager's retirement party at Foxwoods in Connecticut in 2002.

McLaughlin passed the gifts off as a joke, according to people who were there, but several employees interpreted the scene as retaliation against the manager for her earlier questioning of McLaughlin's unusual accounting techniques."

Honest Bender: IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T: Honest Bender: Michael E. McLaughlin [...] put in only 15 full workdays in Chelsea all year to earn his extraordinary paycheck

Does his job require him to actually BE in Chelsea? As a manager, he likely has people locally to handle the busy work. Management doesn't really require that much physical presence...

YES

FTA: "As a local official, most of your duties are right within the jurisdiction of the agency you operate,' said Thomas J. Connelly Jr., executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials."

That doesn't really address what I said. His responsibilities are in the district (duh). But does that mean he is required to physically be there to do his job? I can delegate just as well over the phone as I can in person.

LMFAO.

You're trolling, right?

Mildot: vudukungfu: He is...The 1%

Or 99% of the democrats POLITICIANS...

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There is no difference.

Honest Bender:

That doesn't really address what I said. His responsibilities are in the district (duh). But does that mean he is required to physically be there to do his job? I can delegate just as well over the phone as I can in person.

Comments like this are why I have you farkied as a total moron. Glad to see I don't need to update it.

Also FTA: "But other housing officials say there are few reasons for a manager to be out of town as much as McLaughlin, who was perhaps the highest paid public housing official in the United States in 2011. Executives sometimes work from home or go to conferences, but their main responsibility is to the low-income people living in public housing in their community."

So, others in the same line of work (i.e. his peers) say there's no reason to be out of town like he was. I'll be he should be, I don't know, interacting with the people he's supposed to be helping?

And "McLaughlin and Thibodeau rarely put in for vacation when they visited Naples, Fla., but their calling pattern certainly did not seem like executives working from the road. For instance, McLaughlin made or received more than 200 calls on weekdays when he was in Naples from March 9 to March 20 this year, but fewer than one-quarter were to or from Chelsea."

So the phone records show he wasn't hard at work while he was out of town either (and NOT on vacation, as the article clearly denotes). Hmmmm.......

/Work on your reading comprehension
//Or stick to the Golden Key books
///Done with today's lesson

*bet

Man, we need to see pictures of this Linda Thibadeau

SDRR: Here's some more shenanigans ........ (new window)

Looks like the Fair Housing Act, the taxpayers, and others were violated, as well.

Too bad this is Mass. He's going to walk and won't do prison, because it's all organized crime over there.
Run by crooks and liars.
Even the state supreme court.