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Immigration Advocate Says She’s Never Seen Such ‘Radical’ Executive Orders

Matthew McDonald

Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts is pressing ahead with plans to resettle 50 Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Pittsfield despite President Donald Trump's signal that the spigot is turning off soon from certain countries that federal authorities determine have large numbers of radical Islamic terrorists. Meanwhile, an immigrant advocate is shocked to see executive orders changing federal policy wholesale.

Take Bribes, Keep Pension?
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Take Bribes, Keep Pension?

Matthew McDonald

The Winthrop Retirement Board is appealing a judge's decision to allow a state pension for a former police chief who prosecutors say took payments from a video poker operator to look the other way.

Angelo LaMonica pleaded guilty in 1995 to six counts of federal income tax invasion for failing to report payments he received over the course of 14 years while he was serving as a Winthrop police officer.

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