Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approaching a family on a first childabuse report is also a touchy, and often a profoundly harrowing, moment. The worker is instructed to be cordial, helpful, as direct as possible. And never to show anger - which is likely to destroy any chance there is of parental cooperation. "I used to sit in the car a few minutes before going in, psyching myself, making a deliberate effort to be calm," Belisle recalls. "But I almost ruined one case by blowing my top." That was when he entered the house to discover that the parents had tied a baby hand and foot...
...tarnish accumulated from his messy divorce settlement with ex-Wife Remigia. Brooke's troubles with the committee began in June, when it opened an investigation into whether he had borrowed thousands of dollars, as indicated by a deposition he had given to Remigia's lawyers, and then failed to report the loans to the secretary of the Senate, as required by law. Earlier this month, Committee Counsel Richard Wertheimer resigned, angrily complaining that Brooke's "representatives" had tried to cripple the probe by altering some records and not handing over others that were demanded by the committee...
When the Senator walked into the hearing room last week, he was outraged to find that Wertheimer had prepared a 54-page report describing each suspected violation, and had given copies to reporters but not to Brooke's lawyers...
...report detailed how the committee's staff had compared Brooke's checkbook with other records and found that a number of entries had been obliterated or changed. One of them concerned an Oct. 4, 1972, bank deposit for $27,500 that was originally recorded in the checkbook as a loan from the Bank of Montreal. But when Brooke's lawyers submitted his checkbook to the Ethics Committee, the $27,500 was listed as a return of capital on an investment. Brooke and his lawyers claim that the alteration was made to correct a clerical error...
...basis of that brief report, Boston Magazine gets my Turkey of the year award," James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...