A property buyer whose commercial building was demolished by the city of Chelsea shortly after he acquired it has no remedy in state law, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled.
Rocco Vigorito bought an abandoned gas station from the estate of its previous owner for $100,000 in August 2016, about two months after he entered into a purchase-and-sale agreement and about 11 months after city officials had ordered the estate either to make the building safe or knock it down.
An aide to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who helped negotiate a union contract for Sanders campaign staff members can't serve as an officer of a labor union until 2026 because his 2013 sentence for embezzling United Steelworkers International Union funds forbids it.
When Vermont Digger reported that fact recently, another Sanders aide accused the news outlet of "helping to uphold" what he called "systemic racism" — because the former union leader is Latino.
