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...securing their place in the affections of this organ donor-poor country. But the ultimate compensation -- justice -- eludes them still. A court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello as the murderers was too chock full of regional dialect to serve as intelligible evidence. Police charged that the pair had mistaken the Greens' rental car for a robbery target, forced the car off the road and then fired into the vehicle, hitting young Nicholas in the brain...
...Iannello loudly proclaims his innocence. "As a legislator for the past twelve years," he says, "I have the fullest respect for our law and its administration." Indeed, he merely indulged in a common Massachusetts occupation: misusing state construction funds. In 1961, the Metropolitan District Commission awarded a sidewalk repair contract to the B & M Construction Co., an imaginary firm owned by Iannello's wife, daughter and son-in-law. Iannello, acting for the firm, signed all proposals and vouchers connected with the project. On receiving these documents, the State handed...
Surprisingly, Iannello was caught, because, not surprisingly, the sidewalk had not been repaired. On July 9,1962, the Suffolk Superior Court sentenced Charles to a year in Deer Isle House of Correction and fined him $300. This misfortune did not dampen his political aspirations, for Iannello immediately entered the primary fight for his old seat. Courageously, he declared: "I leave the final verdict to be rendered by the voters and I have the fullest confidence that they will vindicate my innocence...
...confidence was well grounded. In September Iannello handily defeated ten respectable opponents, none of whom had the advantage of a criminal record. This victory was in part earned by Iannello's many services to his constituents--services such as fixing his neighbor's parking tickets, providing them with apartments in public housing projects, and getting summer jobs with the State for their sons. Yet without his martyrdom on Deer Isle, his triumph would not be complete...
...Iannello's saga contains in microcosm all of the elements of the Massachusetts political profess. Yet the citizens of the Commonwealth, not Iannello and his fellow politicians, are responsible for this process...