The 2013 land deal between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Boston Red Sox that granted the baseball club – among other things – the right to cordon off Yawkey Way on game days was the subject of a scorching 19-page report state Inspector General Glenn A. Cunha sent to BRA Director Brian Golden and made public Monday.
Cunha wrote that the deal, which was initially intended to be a 10-year lease renewal but became a permanent transfer, failed to prove that the easement is in the taxpayers' best interest, citing inaccurate reporting and unsupported analysis.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided with Yale University in a dispute over the ownership of a $200 million Vincent van Gogh painting.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a 2014 ruling by a lower court that dismissed the claims of Pierre Konowaloff. He said the Dutch painter's "The Night Cafe" was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution.
