WHY DOES WINCHESTER WANT THE BLACK EYE FROM A SALEM RESIDENT AND FROM AN ARROGANT WINCHESTER ATTORNEY THAT MEDFORD HAS SUFFERED???
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14-766 Petition by the Editor
to discuss West Medford Hillside Little League
and non-profit finances
A March 23, 2010 article by Boston.com noted the controversy over Medford's Pop Warner program:
"The
2009 season ended in controversy after a handful of parents accused
former Medford Pop Warner president Steven Cloutier of mishandling
funds. Several coaches left the program, prompting speculation that
there would be no team in 2010. Those worries were put to rest when
Cloutier resigned in late February."
In the photo op for the article is Mayor Michael J. McGlynn whose
cousin-by-marriage, Attorney David P. Skerry, represented Mr. Cloutier.
In a March 3, 2010 article in the Medford Transcript, Medford a woman
described as "a concerned Medford cheerleader parent," Jodi Coyne,
stated of Cloutier's response to their request for the books " “No
explanation, no receipts, no bank statements, which is what we had all
requested, which as a non-profit group he should be able to provide for
us.”
A June 10, 2007 article from the Transcript, republished in the Boston
Herald, showed how long the battle was being waged at Pop Warner noting
that "A
rough-and-tumble legal battle over Pop Warner football in sedate
Medford has taken a nasty turn, as two parents allege their kids are
being targeted for retaliation."
Pop
Warner, West Medford Hillside Little League and Medford Community
Cablevision, Inc. have all been a black eye on Medford under a Mayor who
has served about 27 years with his 28th scheduled for 2015. How can a
Mayor campaign on "Leadership that works" when that Mayor himself had
to run to Patriot Self Storage when the Pop Warner equipment was in
jeopardy?
In light of the sentencing of Stanley Komins and his son Stephen on
November 21, 2014, it is clear that McGlynn has not has the eye on the
non-profit ball.
The Middlesex DA's office issued this press release:
Stanley Komins and Stephen Komins sentenced for stealing from non-profit
WOBURN – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced today that Stanley Komins of
Stoneham and Stephen Komins of Stoneham have been found guilty of
embezzlement in connection with a theft which authorities estimate was
between $50,000 and $100,000 from the West Medford Hillside Little
League organization.
The
jury in Somerville District Court found both defendants guilty of
embezzlement over $250 and Stephen was also found guilty of forging a
check and uttering a false check for incidents which occurred between
2007 and 2011.
_____________________________________
The earliest document available on the web from the Secretary of the
Commonwealth's site is for November 1, 2003 where a Steve Cloutier is
the President of Medford Pop Warner Colts, Inc., a Steve Cloutier at the
same address is listed as the clerk and a Jeanmarie Cloutier of the
same address is a director.
Something similar happened at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. when
Frank Pilleri's son, Timothy Pilleri, was also on the board of
directors. By November 1, 2010 Cloutier's name was off the Pop Warner
Colts, but the key here is that all three of these non-profits have been
in the press under cloud of argument and that the long-time Mayor going
on 28 years never thought to inspect the 30 year reign of convicted
embezzler Stanley Komins?
In light of that, there is no out for the Mayor on TV3 Medford. In
2006 I wrote a report on TV3 per the request of Michael J. McGlynn after
the Boston Globe noted that I had a meeting with McGlynn in his office
in October of that year. My report - denied by TV3 - an entity not
privy to my meeting with Mayor McGlynn and the late Richard Lee - then
Budget Director - denounced the report saying it wasn't authorized by
the Mayor. That's interesting as Mary Merrill in the Mayor's office
accepted the three ring binder and the report. Then the Mayor asked
City Solicitor Mark Rumley to write his Rumley Report. Look at my
report and Mr. Rumley's excellent report and see some of the similar
complaints.
McGlynn spent $3900.00 on retired judge Marie O. Jackson-Thompson for
"recommendations" as well as approximately $10,000 or so on an audit by
Melanson Heath & Co PC in 2008/2009 which TV3 failed to respond to.
Melanson
Heath & Co. wrote: “We have concluded that we are unable to express
an opinion because limitations have been placed on the scope of our
audit as outlined in our report and the following paragraph.
“Your accounting records were incomplete during the period under audit and we were not able to apply alternative procedures to determine the completeness of the statements and related disclosures. TV3’s management has not provided us evidence to support the $55,000 receivable on your financial statements. Additionally, TV3’s management has declined to provide us with sufficient representation on your financial statements...”
Read more:http://www.wickedlocal.com/medford/news/opinions/letters/x342406543/Questions-linger-on-TV3-audit#ixzz2yQXnwsXf
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Page 2 of 2 - The letter goes on to say that the management, which includes two individuals who claim to be “money managers” and offer advice to Medford viewers, cited “numerous references to accounting standards and accounting practices which we are not familiar with and which we do not understand.”
Frankly, the Comcast and Verizon subscribers who funded that enterprise don't quite understand how individuals we never hired — who admit they don’t know how to count — are able to play with millions of dollars and not be held accountable to the people who fund the station.
Now the Attorney General's office writes that information asked for in a
public records request might impede "law enforcement" in the TV3
situation.
The specific information noted here is a black eye on the Mayor, Michael
J. McGlynn, and the four councilors that vote with McGlynn - Paul A.
Camuso, Adam Knight, Rick Caraviello and Freddy Dello Russo, Jr. They
have a million excuses as to why they can't help us or why they think
we don't need to learn computer skills or air our free speech points of
views...that's because they enjoy censoring the community and denying us
those rights.
You can blame convicted embezzler Stanley Komins, controversial Steve
Cloutier of Pop Warner, and embattled TV3 board Frank Pilleri, Harvey
Alberg, Ron DeLucia and Arthur Alan Deluca for only so long. Yes, they
all need to hand their books over to be scrutinized, yes justice needs
to be served if the books don't quite add up, and yes, it is horrible
that there's been no transparency, oversight, term limits and
accountability that I requested in my 2006 report to McGlynn. You can
be furious with the people who were negligent in running non-profits, to
the detriment of Medford's youth, but the problem falls squarely on
McGlynn's failed leadership, the lack of leadership, McGlynn's ability
to lead - magnified by the recent Community Access TV Panel that
contained a priest and a woman paid for by P/E/G monies (Public,
Educational and Governmental Access monies) - a conflicted panel with
the Mayor's cronies rather than a panel that had an objective eye and
experience in access television.
Mayor McGlynn has been the problem since day 1.
He used taxpayer monies for auditors and a retired judge, had the city
solicitor tied up in a frivolous lawsuit MCC TV3 filed against the city
and lost (dismissed in favor of the city; that one never made the press)
and then a dog and pony show with a Community Access TV panel that the
Mayor ignored and never made a public comment on.
The Comcast contract is up for renewal on April 20, 2015. A public records request to city hall says that City Hall has no documents regarding the renewal, which usually happens 6 months before the end of the Agreement.
Is the Mayor sending smoke signals to Comcast because he doesn't want
anything on the record? Nothing for a public records request to obtain
because the Mayor hates transparency?
There is a reason something as popular as access TV is being downplayed
by City Hall. One official said to me "my opinion is that access is
obsolete." My response was "Teaching people computer skills is
obsolete." The Government official stood corrected, but you see what
the skewed talking points are, don't you: the Mayor doesn't want you
having a voice.
NOTES:
Herald June 10, 2007
Herald June 10, 2007
March 23, 2010 Boston.com
Middlesex DA Nov 21, 2014
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