Word: extortionate
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The legislature created the special commission on state and county building last year in the wake of the McKee-Berger-Mansueto extortion scandal concerning that firm's contract to supervise construction of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The volunteers analyze documents and assist at interviews, Robert E. Richardson '79...
The picture evokes painful memories of the comparable photo of Aldo Moro before he was murdered by his Red Brigades abductors last year. More than that, if the allegations were even partly true, they would set off a Vesuvius of scandal. The group claiming to hold Sindona, the Proletarian Committee...
When the issue comes to public conflict it is customarily fought out in the wrong terms: an attempt to link one specific act of real-life violence to one specific act of TV violence. About the best documented instance, from the viewpoint of anti-TV forces, occurred in 1966 when...
Massachusetts politicians have been called many things in the past, but "ethical" is not one of them. From former Gov. Elbridge Gerry, who fathered the gerrymander in 1815, to State Senators Joseph J.C. DiCarlo and Ronald C. MacKenzie, who were recently convicted for extortion, the Commonwealth's officials have been...
In 1977, the State Senate appointed Vorenberg chief counsel to the special committee on ethics chaired by State Sen. Chester G. Atkins. As counsel, Vorenberg handled the senate's investigation of State Senators Joseph J.C. DiCarlo and Ronald MacKenzie, who had been convicted for extortion earlier in the year. The...