Word: furcolos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murk of Massachusetts politics, Democrat Foster Furcolo, Yale-educated ('33) lawyer and sometime playwright, was a dazzler. When he was a Congressman (1949-52), a poll of Washington correspondents rated him one of the ten best on Capitol Hill...
...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...
...Furcolo, a Democrat who served two terms as Governor between 1956 and 1960, and the four councillors are charged with arranging a bribe to secure the reappointment of Anthony Dinatale as state commissioner of public works...