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"Mayor Reeves was paid biweekly with a check," James R. Ball, the school department's public information director, said yesterday.
Reeves' explanation for the over-payments has changed in the past week. Earlier this month, the mayor claimed that his paychecks had been directly deposited into his personal bank account. He said he was unaware of the overpayments until the Chronicle reported on them.
But even by his supporters' accounts, the troubles of Reeves, Cambridge's first Black and first gay mayor, are far from over.
Reeves surprised nearly 200 Cantabrigians Monday night by announcing that he had received two FBI agents in his office. The mayor later revealed that the agents were inquiring about more than $30,000 in extra payments he received from the school committee over a period of nearly two years.
Reeves was paid an annual stipend of $13,000 for his work on the school committee from the time he took office in January 1992 until September 1994. But the mayor's salary--now nearly $44,000 a year--had been adjusted in 1988 to include the school committee stipend...