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Is Tommy going down?
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As rocky as things have been for the stock market so far this year, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch suffered a worse time.
A way worse time.
First off, he had to try to spin how his plans for an Adams Family center of some sort or other planned at the current location of Planet Fitness was not happening.
While not acknowledged, the basic fatal problems were intertwined.
Muscle prevail over fat!
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One is that he has surely failed to raise anywhere near sufficient funds to build the likely to run into nine figure facility, much less also the likely mid-eight figures more needed to duly endow what would likely be needed support what is sure to be a money-losing proposition.
And the other, the normally invertebrate city councillors have surely sotto voce explained to Mayor Koch that no way would at least a majority of them risk their already shaky political standing by approving tens of millions more in city debt to buy the venue of a successful gym.
(“I don’t want to hear about it”),
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After all, all of the city councillors are facing elections this coming November whereas the next mayoral election is almost three years away.
Plus, already Mayor Koch is looking having to pony up ten to fifteen million dollars needed to settle long ongoing litigation that the mayor has lost at every turn so that he might finally conclude purchasing the building as well as the land underneath the Adams Academy property and where the Quincy Hysterical Society/ has long enjoyed paying little to more recently essentially nothing in the way of rent.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
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As ugly was having to step away from his edifice complex of at least a moist pipe dream, far worse hit the fan on Thursday when the feds hauled into federal court one of the mayor’s now former long time best friends for arraignment on charges tied to the diversion of least $120,000.00 in city funds for his personal use or benefit.
Particularly troubling was just how easily the alleged perp was able to do what all has been alleged in ways that merely the most basic of financial control and monitoring procedures all but assuredly could have readily precluded but which clearly were not practiced by those who should have been doing doing their jobs.
Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, center right; Fleeced fleece far right
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Similar troubling was how the perp allegedly fleeced city funds to buy twenty-seven fleeces for the male-only members of Mayor Koch’s church group that includes a number of senior city officials and that the fleeces were custom embroidered with the group’s name.
Even so, this grift might turn out to not be the most flagrant — if not also most curious — of misuses of the allegedly embezzled funds.
In turn, it is only proper to note that one cannot make this stuff up.
Missing mayor
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Even so, here we most gobsmackingly are.
Other than the mayor, that is.
Quincy Mayor Koch has been all but MIA and thus unavailable to seek comment as regards just how sloppy has been his maladministration for at least five years in this matter.
Even so, last spring Mayor Koch scored himself an 89% raise by claiming that he was a hard-working and effective manager, a raise that was later iced by the Massachusetts Ethics Commission pending Ethics holding an expected hearing and then issuing its finding.
It’s odd how the city never fights any of the construction projects like they do other projects like the Long Island Bridge.
For example, a certain company in particular gets whatever it wants because it pays to play. I drove by the new police station construction project and saw Kennedy Mechanical working at the site. I wonder if they are related to Chief Kennedy whose family (and himself) have made large donations to the mayor’s campaign fund for years?
If Clasby had really fit they could have covered it up and let him pay the money back. Grifting and worse happens more than locals would ever care to know. Some even have city venues named after them. There is a firefighter who doesn’t have a license due to a homicide but because he fits they let him work without a license. Anyone who doesn’t fit, however, would be fired. The same for Helen “Bud Light” Murphy who was allowed to keep her high profile job. It’s all in who you know in the City of Pre$ident$.
How can you say in this article the Mayor and the funds embezzler are no longer friends? I would say they are still best buddies as thick as thieves. The funds embezzler was just acting a little over ambitiously from the lessons he was learning from his admired mentor.