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Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: 2022 continues to suck for the Koch Maladministration.
Suck big time.
It is said that the worst day fishing beats the best day at work.
So far for the Koch Maladministration, however, this week confirmed that 2022 continues to be nothing but bad inside of Quincy’s two city halls.
How bad?
WIcked big time bad.
Charlie, thanks for the photo op. I really needed the spin.
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In spite of an oddly staged indoors groundbreaking photo op Monday morning photo op – even Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker was overheard saying WTQ – for the building of a new MBTA bus maintenance facility and bus storage yard hard upon residential housing and near a new $60 million middle school, things then quickly returned to going south faster than the stock market of late for the woefully hapless Koch Maladministration.
Specifically, on Monday night the Koch Machine found itself in bovine byproduct up to the neck of its spokesmodel Pinocchio Walkbacker when he briefed the City Council on the ransomware attack earlier this month that at last report has continued to cripple the city’s computer network.
Additionally, Walkbacker’s Zoom presentation reinforced the recently obvious change in his physical appearance that reminds one of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Fortunately for Walkbacker during the council meeting, however, only one member of the city council was duly prepared to ask actually consequential questions.
Even more fortunate for Pinocchio was the fact that all of the city council members were time-limited to lodge their asks.
Pinocchio in happier times
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The time limits also well-served Zoom watchers of the presentation by saving them from having to long suffer waxings idiotic.
All too often wicked idiotic.
Even so, the pounding of Pinocchio was still considerable even though he probably secretly enjoys it.
Unfortunately for the ever-growing legions of loyal Quincy Quarry News readers, however, the Quarry has yet to be able to report in detail just how bad were as well as in some ways still are the City of Quincy’s so-called computer security practices.
Why none of the usual hard-hitting to the stones coverage by Quincy Quarry News?
The City of Quincy computer security team
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Quincy Quarry’s computer and cyber security experts are still laughing all but uncontrollably over just how woefully bad are the City of Quincy’s so-called security practices and are thus struck by the giggles whenever they try to pen an exposé or what more likely should be a many part exposé. A many, many part exposé.
Lol all but unendingly notwithstanding, Quincy Quarry News has at least managed to advise sotto voce various parties as to just how bad are the City of Quincy’s so-called computer security practices as a public service.
How bad are things?
Easy access!’
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On the order of leaving a house key under the backdoor doormat bad.
And for another hit to both the credibility and competence of Koch Maladministration, while Pinocchio said that he would not respond to any questions about last year’s $3.5 million cyberheist from the City of Quincy employees retirement fund, Pinocchio blurted out that it was not the Massachusetts Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission that insisted on the City of Quincy include mention of the $3.5 million heist in the prospectus for the city’s $475 million pension obligation bond offering in December.
“It’s the Governor!”
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Rather, the call was from Governor Charlie Baker’s office.
Normally, a last-minute call from the governor is a good thing.
This time, however, not so much.
Moreover, as well as needless to say, Quincy Quarry’s financial and other affairs desk can only reasonably assume that the heat during only to be expected interrogations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal investigators will be considerable as their investigations continue.
Do you really want me to turn things over to the bad cop?
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Reasons include that just various aspects of actions undertaken and perhaps not duly undertaken in the wake of the $3.5 million cyberheist by City of Quincy officials will likely prove to be rubber hose ugly time for La Kocha Nostra capos.
Bwahahaha wicked ugly.
How’s the investigation on the trooper accident on Sea Street going? Is it now OK to drive into houses on three wheels and not get a ticket?
Chris,
Absent witnesses putting the statie in his truck at the time of the whacking, gut guess is a parking ticket and an insurance claim by the homeowner on the statie’s car insurance.
What a week!!
Sugarcoating, omitting facts, covering up, and outright lying are signs of more significant problems.
Cyberheist, lol, an email was sent from an unsecured pension board member’s email account to the fund manager directing city funds to be sent to an unknown third party account – over a year ago – and the manager sent the funds! $3.5 million gone!
#CoverUp
Gunny,
It appears to be even worse than you think. Multiple sources have asserted that the pension board employee whose email was apparently abused to effect the heist had left her job at the pension board a few weeks to couple of months or so BEFORE the heist is said to have been committed.
How could this be true? Mr. Walker told us at the city council meeting that the city IT department terminates the accounts of former city officials and employees immediately.
Debbie,
In fairness to Walkbacker, it was the head of the City of Quincy’s IT department who said that the email accounts, computer systems access, and the like are now duly closed in a timely manner when a person leaves the employ of the City of Quincy.
The key word, however, is “now.”
At the same time, neither Walkbacker nor any other city official have said when the email account that was used to effect the cyberheist was shutdown OR how the heist was discovered eight months after it happened.
I lost my father-in-law George due to a pothole incident in Macon, Georgia, back in 95.
A flying hubcap killed George while he was out walking his dog. Potholes are no joke.
True story!