Word: spadafora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVER SINCE the Cambridge City Council adopted Rent Control last September City Manager John Corcoran and Interim Rent Control Administrator Philip M. Cronin have delayed implementation of the law. Corcoran has never appointed a full-time administrator, and he fired Joseph A. Spadafora, a young lawyer hired as Executive Director, after only one week on the job, Cronin began his administration by temporarily adjusting all rents to the current level, a move of questionable legal status, and now that the rollback provision has finally been implemented, he has come up with a formula to determine rent adjustments that will mean...
...however, he does not seem to be very near doing so. Of the three candidates originally recommended to him for consideration by the "Blue Ribbon" committee of citizens appointed to the Council to screen applicants, two have already been eliminated. One has accepted another job and the other was Spadafora. Corcoran says he has talked several time; with Eugene Underwood-an administrator for New York City rent control and the committee's first choice-but that there are still other people under consideration. Corcoran has not been open about how he is going to make this important appointment...
...last Monday he did so by quietly firing Joseph A. Spadafora, the man whom he had appointed only two weeks before to assist Cronin as Ex??? Director of rent control...
Corcoran fired Spadafora on the basis of Spadafora's police record given to him by a source he refused to identify. Spadafora has been arrested for drunkenness and has had some speeding tickets, but why wasn't this brought up before he was hired? There are other city officials who have more dirt on their records. The fact that Corcoran refused to identify his source is the crucial point. "Someone" brought these violations up because he didn't like the fact that things were being done, and Corcoran, open to suggestion, fired Spadafora "in the best interests of the city...
...Spadafora declined to say whether or not he would fight the decision...