Red Sox deal for Yawkey Way rights flawed, state investigator says

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'

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'…