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Instead of the goodwill gesture, the government released a list of 8,551 people who have been arrested since the current state of emergency was declared on June 12. Some critics claimed that the real number of detainees was closer to 12,000, but the official figure was high enough...
The federal grand jury, in a lengthy indictment unsealed Wednesday, charged that leaders of the reputed test-stealing enterprise set up the ring so they could place favored officers in high-level positions in various police departments.
The indictment said those handpicked officers, in turn, could help the ring leaders cover up "other of their illegal activity [if they] ... come to the attention of those police departments."
The indictment, however, did not discuss what those other criminal enterprises were.
Middlesex County Dist. Atty. L. Scott Harshbarger said one was the $1.5 million robbery of the Depositors Trust Co. of Medford in 1980. The two leaders named in the indictment, former Metropolitan Police Capt. Gerald W. Clemente and former Medford Police Lt. Thomas K. Doherty, are serving sentences for their...