At the beginning of January, commissioner Robert Goldstein of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a memorandum to all Massachusetts health care providers, supposedly to remind them about their licensure obligations.
But to careful readers, it was immediately apparent that the letter represented a thinly veiled threat against the license of any medical professional who partners with pro-life pregnancy resource centers, also sometimes called crisis pregnancy centers.
Several Massachusetts state troopers conspired to give passing scores for commercial driver's licenses to would-be truck drivers who failed their road test in exchange for goods and services, federal prosecutors say.
State troopers often sent text messages after the test describing the applicant as a "mess," but passed the applicant anyway, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Massachusetts in Boston.
