Galvin’s comment to Dan Rivera that “I made you mayor” strikes the ear as REALLY weird. Galvin didn’t do a single thing to help Rivera get elected, other than sending staff to keep the election fair. Why would he feel he is owed something for that? Now, I admit I’m biased because I don’t like him or Rivera. But to my mind, that sounds like a Freudian slip. Like the observers weren’t there to make it fair after all. Maybe it is, or maybe Galvin’s just clumsy wth words. But it’s enough that I would investigate if I were in Maura Healey’s shoes.
Galvin owes the public an explanation of what he meant. If one isn’t forthcoming, it’s only fair to assume he meant the worst.
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Sounds Chris Christie-ish..
This is a doozy, isn’t it?? I mean, by rights, Galvin should not be able to escape this. Like you, I don’t think he necessarily admitted to “election tampering” per se, but it needs looking into.
It also seems out of character. Galvin has always struck me as very low-key.
The private Galvin is a very vindictive person, and It appears we will be seeing more of that in public as the Zakim challenge has really gotten under his skin.
Galvin’s nickname at the State House is the Prince of Darkness. Presumably he has done some things to merit it.
I always thought that was because he was dour, not mean.
Galvin got the nickname for his habit of making “anonymous’ phone calls to the media (and others) trashing his opponents.
Isn’t it ironic then that he now finds himself in hot water because someone else dropped a dime on him, but this time did not do it anonymously?
I would be very surprised if Maura Healey does anything about this. She still hasn’t done anything about the Assistant AG’s who were found to have lied the the court.
There’s nothing for the AG to do over harsh words. You are the only one I know who harps on the alleged lying.
I’m certainly not the only one.
Judge Richard J. Carey wrote. . . .”Similarly, but in many ways more damning, the conduct of two assistant attorneys general, (Anne) Kaczmarek and (Kris) Foster, compounded and aggravated the damage caused by Farak. Their intentional and deceptive actions ensured that justice would certainly be delayed, if not outright denied, and in the process, they violated their oaths as assistant attorneys general and officers of the court.” . . .Carey called the conduct by Kaczmarek and Foster in the Farak matter “fraud upon the court.”
“Jared Olanoff, a Springfield lawyer who also had a client’s case dismissed by the decision, said the cases before Carey ‘exposed the Attorney General’s illegal and unethical attempts to cover up the true extent of Sonja Farak’s misconduct at the drug lab, which would have resulted in the dismissal of thousands of cases.’
He said methods used by the Attorney General’s Office included the violation of court orders, rules, ethics, and perjury. He said it is is impossible to count the number of years that people spent in prison based on false or unreliable drug lab evidence and then later “the Attorney General’s cover-up.
Luke Ryan, one of the defense lawyers who spearheaded the effort to examine prosecutorial misconduct,
“I think the actions of Ms. Farak and assistant attorney generals Foster and Kaczmarek caused a lot of harm.
AG Healey is certainly not shy about what she is doing. But to my knowledge she has been conspicuously silent about the proprietorial misconduct of Foster and Kaczmarek. Is there any reason to suppose that she won’t similarly stonewall an investigation into Galvin?
I seem to recall the first time you brought this up that this extends back prior to the current AG and her sins are more of omission rather than commission. I just figure it would be more of a persistent news story if it were as bad as you make it sound.
As much as I like and support Ms. Healey, I asked her about this matter directly in person just after she was elected.
Her response was unencouraging. I wouldn’t call it “stone-walling”, exactly, but she basically said that these issues involving the testing labs are outside the scope of her office. I asked her why the state does not apply the same basic on-going QA tests to state labs that every pharma company in the state routinely does ever hour of every day (these tests have been around for decades). Her answer was that such oversight is not the job of the AG.
It is bad. It is as bad or worse as bob-gardner makes it sound.
We don’t have much in the way of local media left, and the outlets we do have don’t care very much about the people hurt most by this fraud. Sadly, it’s the same reason that these frauds (let’s not forget that Ms. Farak is not the only case) went on so long in the first place.
Since it is “only” suspected and accused drug dealers (many of whom are urban minorities) that are affected by these scandals, most state residents (and most media) don’t care even a little bit.