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...court has been able to catch both Derham and Kelly on several crucial issues. First, it has proved that Derham received the check from the Waucantuk Mills on August 7 and deposited it on August 8, not August 28 as Cenedella first stated. Cenedella, however, changed his story, explaining that he got the two dates mixed up. The court has shown that Derham was incorrect when he said he had deposited $2,000. The court proved that he had only half this...
This conversation supposedly took place between Alfred B. Cenedella, the District Attorney of Worcester, and John S. Derham, an Uxbridge lawyer. When it was reported to a crime investigating group last summer by Cenedella, it started one of the biggest graft investigations in Massachusetts history...
...Derham served as an attorney for the Waucantuk Mills of Uxbridge in a land damage case against the state. Out of the $19,698 total settlement, the mills received $14,000 and Derham got $5,698 in fees. If Derham had not made the alleged remark to Cenedella, the case would probably have been forgotten along with the fifty or more other land damage cases during...
Finally the Rules group, composed of 12 Democrats and three Republicans, voted that Republican Cenedella should either resign or be ousted from office. It cleared both Derham and Kelly...
This is where the case is now. The investigation is unique in that it is a public judicial inquiry. The court is not bound by rules of evidence; counsels for Derham and Kelly cannot cross-examine court witnesses; and there is no final adjudication. As a matter of fact, nothing will come out of the hearings except a report by Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua. In it he will make recommendations to the Supreme Court stating whether he thinks that Derham, Kelly, and possibly Cenedella are qualified to be lawyers. It will have no direct bearing on their status...