Word: furcolo
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...opponent in this election, State Senator James W. Hennigan, has been quick to point out. ("Brooke has been more interested in headlines than real performance," Hennigan charges.) This fall strong charges of partisanship in Crime Commission affairs were levelled, after the indictment of former Governor Foster Furcolo. Last week, Furcolo charged that Commission chairman Alfred A. Gardener had violated an old "Corrupt Practices Act" that forbids gifts from state office holders to political candidates. Brooke has attempted to clear himself by pointing in another "explanatory opinion," to the fact that Gardener's $100 contributions was to the Brooke campaign committee...
...Furcolo handily won the governorship in 1956 and 1958-the first person of Italian extraction to win the job. But Foster fizzled in the statehouse, lost a 1960 primary for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination...
...Payoff. Last week Furcolo, 53, was indicted on charges of misconduct while in office by a 21-member Boston grand jury. In the eight months since it was impaneled at the request of Republican Attorney General Edward Brooke, the grand jury has charged 40 persons with various violations of public trust. It now accused Furcolo of conspiring to arrange a bribe while he was Governor...
...indictment claimed that in 1960 Furcolo wanted to guarantee the re-appointment of his commissioner of public works, Anthony N. DiNatale. Under Massachusetts' archaic (1780) constitution, final approval for gubernatorial appointments must come from the nine-man Governor's Council, an elected board that treasures its control over some 1,000 state patronage jobs. The grand jury charged that Furcolo had conspired to pay off four council members so they would vote for DiNatale. In last week's indictment, the four council members-Democrats all -were charged with asking for and getting a bribe in a conspiracy...
...Obviously Political." Furcolo denied all, cried that the whole thing was "obviously political," demanded a trial before Election Day. Instantly, there was speculation about how his indictment might affect contests for state offices. Both gubernatorial candidates -Republican John Volpe and Democrat Francis X. Bellotti-are Italian-Americans, and thereby are presumably equally immune (or susceptible) to any bloc-vote protest. But there is to be a referendum on Nov. 3 on whether to curtail the powers of the Governor's Council-specifically abolishing its right to approve gubernatorial appointments. Volpe has favored it all along, while Bellotti...