Boston fiscal watchdog calls on state to investigate law firm’s donations to Dems

BOSTON — Startling revelations stemming from a Boston Globe report linking a leading House Democrat's abrupt resignation to his law office's bonuses-for-political-donations scheme has prompted the nonprofit watchdog Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance to call on the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance to investigate.

In a bit of irony that is no doubt delicious for MFA and its founder, Paul Diego Craney, the lawmaker at the heart of the Globe expose happens to be former state Rep. Garrett Bradley (D-Hingham), who had been part of a task force assembled by House Speaker Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop) which in 2014 drafted a law requiring that the names of donors contributing more than $5,000 appear on any direct mailings targeting elected officials.