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...speeches, Weld points out some embarrassing facts concerning Bellotti: Bellotti was hired just prior to his race for Attorney General in 1974 by PCM, Inc. as an attorney. PCM was headed by Daniel Shields and William Harding, former executives of MBM, Inc., a firm from which two state senators, who are now serving jail terms, extorted bribes...
...Essex County commissioners entered into a contract with PCM in 1974 for the company to supervise about $10 million worth of county construction work. Although Bellotti claims to have advised PCM only on strictly legal matters, witnesses claim that Bellotti personally lobbied Essex County commissioners to persuade them to make a contract with PCM. According to investigative news stories, although PCM had only been incorporated the previous month, Bellotti praised the PCM firm at a February 5, 1974 meeting of the Essex Country commissioners, saying the PCM firm was "the most informed and efficient in their entire field...
...when the MBM scandal broke, it wasn't long before Bellotti's connection to MBM through PCM surfaced. A federal prosecutor handled the initial investigation and a federal court prosecuted two state senators, but then the federal prosecutor handed the information on the case over to Bellotti's office. Since that time, Bellotti has done little to further the investigation...
...While Bellotti has failed to take action, the statute of limitations is expiring on some of the alleged offenses of MBM executives. In light of the MBM scandal, legislation was finally proposed to create a special commission to investigate fraud and corruption in the award of state and county building contracts over the past ten years. Bellotti supported this legislation, but wanted the scope of the investigation narrowed to include only contracts involving MBM and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts--which, of course, would keep the Essex County commissioners...
Weld continues to criticizes Bellotti's recalcitrance in investigating the MBM-PCM scandal, contending that "I personally do not think the whole story has come out yet...My point is that enough facts have come out already to suggest that the PCM deal in Essex County was part of a pattern...