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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap:  The Feds continue to prosecute.

Due to human error, last week’s Weekly Fish Wrap is hitting the fan a week late – Q happens.  That and the local news mostly still stinks …

Federal prosecutors continue to press their case against the alleged Quincy Police Department lieutenant police detail Double Dipper in Federal Court.

In fact, earlier this week the Feds presented evidence of two apparent instances of triple detail dips as well as a 31 hour work day.

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The defense speaks up in court
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This is not to say that the defense didn’t battle back. 

For example, it tried its best to make hay about other officers apparent detail overlaps.

Rumor has it that the defense also found upwards of twenty or so so other apparent detail double dippers on the force as well as significantly more potential incidents of dipping by these also suspected dippers.

The problem with this strategy is that it is ultimately a defense akin to the childish defense that surely it’s OK for me to do what I did (wrong, ed.) because everyone else was doing it.

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Money, money, money!!!
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And on other fronts, this week the City Council approved an over 4% increase in the City’s budget for Fiscal Year 2018

The Koch Maladministration has claimed that the 2018 property tax increase will be a modest one as in less than that its percentage increase will be less than the rate of increase in spending. 

Quincy Quarry, however, is not yet as confident that such will be the case given a lack of confirming data for the claim as well as a possibly a change in the scheduled tax dollar-funded payments that are made to endeavor to duly fund the City of Quincy employees’ pension fund and which is currently less well-funded than even the MBTA’s pension fund.

The above problems notwithstanding, there was some truly good news for the Q for a change.

Newly opened Café Gelato in Quincy Center is wicked serious about its gelato and its favors are thus flavorful and tasty.

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Bet you can’t stop at trying just one flavor!
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Wicked flavorful and tasty.

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