Neighbor News
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Lack Of Oversight Taxpayers Risk "B" Billions
Attorney General Maura Healey is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer protecting consumers from corruption protecting civil rights
Governor Deval Patrick’s administration lack of oversight failures are now major crises. The costs are still adding up.
Former Governor Deval Patrick in 2012 ordered a “file-by-file review” of every case handled by a Massachusetts chemist, Annie Dookhan, accused of faking test results at a closed government lab, as authorities continue to deal with the fallout from a scandal that has unraveled over twenty one thousand criminal cases.
Massachusetts faces the largest dismissals of criminal convictions in US history because of lack of oversight by Governor Patrick.
Find out what's happening in Falmouthfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The five year lack of time to take action may lead to further action by those in legal challenges to criminal convictions in cases. The illegal convictions took away employment opportunities along with housing and driving records etc. The taxpayers are left on the hook again.
In 2015 Attorney General Maura Healey announced ( two years ago ) that all Massachusetts cities and towns can buy Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdoses, at a discounted rate of around twenty dollars at taxpayer expense.
Find out what's happening in Falmouthfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
In other litigation commencing under the Patrick administration are the commercial wind turbine lawsuits.
Falmouth is ground zero for poorly placed commercial megawatt wind turbines in the United States. The turbines have created a second class group of citizens living under the blade in twenty one communities.
AG Maura Healys' predecessor, Martha Coakley, a wind turbine advocate sat on her hands while state politicians created a group of second class citizens in over twenty one communities in Massachusetts with poorly placed commercial wind turbines.
Citizens describe the wind turbine noise as torture from lack of sleep.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has helped finance Falmouth town litigation with 1.8 million dollars in 2014 and the Falmouth Town Meeting Members are voting up to $300,000.00 every six months for additional wind turbine litigation.
Democratic Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick may well go down as the least popular governor in the United State history
The wind turbine lawsuits caused by taking health, property rights and throwing out tens of thousands of criminal cases confirms Deval Patrick was the worst governor in America .
