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City of Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria
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In a development Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch is surely monitoring closely for ample good reasons, Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria has announced that he intends to press for due process in the wake of the release of a Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General review that views Mayor DeMaria as overpaid by $180,000 in recent years.
The Inspector General views the purported overpayment as resulting from the alleged manipulation of Everett’s mayoral longevity pay bonus ordinance.
An underhanded smoke-filled backroom deal?
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So considerable was the alleged creative, if not also curious, enhancement as well as masking of Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s gross pay that he so become the highest paid mayor in Massachusetts as the mayor of the long gritty city of Everett that has less than half of the population of Quincy and where also identically overly too long in office Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch is only paid $151,000 a year.
Fortunately for Mayor Koch, at least he enjoys the perk of a late model full-sized leather upholstered and thus upscale Chevy Tahoe SUV.
The Koch Maladministration legal team in court
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While Everett Mayor DeMaria apparently appears to believe that he can manage to overcome the Inspector General findings by playing the Delay Game, it is only reasonable to conversely point out that the Koch Maladministration is pretty much 0 for around 8 or thereabouts on cases that Mayor Koch’s consigliere has taken up on appeal.
Plus, per a careful review of how Quincy Mayor Koch has endeavored to grift his raises both received and currently on hold which look to be at least all but impossible to defend.
At the same time, it is unclear if Mayor DeMaria has the means to lay siege on the Inspector General.
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For example, while last year DeMaria scored a $1.1 million settlement on a libel suit over ill-conceived allegations of corruption, sexual impropriety and such, his enjoying use of the funds is viewed as restricted.
The reason why?
DeMaria used funding from his campaign account to pursue his lawsuit and per applicable campaign funding law he is thus extremely limited as to what he can do with the settlement money as one is not allowed to so score a manner of profitable gain funded with campaign money.
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In the meanwhile, the Everett City Council voted 9 to 0 on a no confidence in Mayor DeMaria motion at its Monday night meeting this week and are thus apparently vertebrate — unlike Quincy’s city councillors — or at least now covering their own sixes.
Further, unlike in Quincy, Everett locals were allowed to chime in at this city council meeting and did so with mostly negative to very negative comments about Mayor DeMario, including calling on him to resign and thus call it a career given that he might to more likely will be kicked to the curb by local voters come Everett’s mayoral election this coming November.
Just like Tommy Taxes, Carlo thinks he is made of Teflon. Neither the Inspector General nor the ACLU can get them. Do you know who they are? At least Carlo is a made man. He was brought in by Charlie Lightbody, a real gangster. Tommy was brought in by Jimmy Sheets a Nazarene “Boy”. They will both get theirs in due time. Tommy brought tough guys with him like Danny “Wannabe” Flynn, Pauly “Handsy” Hines and Tommy “The Claz” Clasby. I hope Chrissy Walker gets what is coming to him too. His arrogance knows no bounds. They should all go down like the bucket of grease in the storm sewer next to City Hall.
Oh, look — Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria is once again shocked, shocked that anyone would dare suggest he took more money than he was supposed to be paid. The Massachusetts Inspector General says he was overpaid by a casual $180,000, but Carlo’s response? A big, defiant nuh-uh!
Apparently, the real crime here isn’t that DeMaria pocketed an extra six figures — it’s that the state had the audacity to notice. Now he’s vowing to fight the findings, because obviously, the best way to prove your innocence is to double down and burn through even more taxpayer dollars on legal fees. Maybe he thinks if he stalls long enough, everyone will just get tired and let him keep the cash.
Meanwhile, Everett residents are stuck watching their mayor throw a tantrum over what is, by all accounts, an absurdly generous salary to begin with. And let’s be real — if some city employee got caught “accidentally” taking an extra 180 grand, would they get a chance to fight it? Or would they just be handed a cardboard box and told to clean out their desk as well as be facing sanctions?
But hey, it’s Everett. If DeMaria has proven anything, it’s that he doesn’t go down without a fight — especially when the battle is over his bank account.