Former state lawmakerâs fraud scheme relied on elected office â until indictment ended his career
By Emma Platoff and Andrea Estes Globe Staff,Updated April 17, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Massachusetts state Representative David Nangle, center, left the federal courthouse in Boston after his initial appearance on Feb. 18, 2020.Tanner Stening/Mass.live via AP
During the first week of February 2016, the days dawned surprisingly warm, the Massachusetts House marched ahead at its deliberate winter pace, and little about David Nangleâs legislative business seemed notable.
That Wednesday, state Representative Nangle voted in line with House leadership on five proposals: no, no, no, yes, yes. On Thursday, the longtime Democratic state lawmaker from Lowell stood before the chamber to move a host of routine matters down the legislative assembly line: liquor licenses for Beverly and Westborough, a property rehabilitation fund for Athol, city clerk appointments in G
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April 12, 2021 | 2:16 PM
A Massachusetts campaign finance regulator is referring a case of potential violations involving a Republican state senator, his wife who also holds elected office, and the state party’s chairman to the attorney general’s office.
The development came last week after state Sen. Ryan Fattman and Worcester County Register of Probate Stephanie Fattman, both of Sutton and elected Republicans, mounted a legal challenge to the probe that ensued in Suffolk Superior Court last month, according to
Michael Sullivan, who’s helmed the Office of Campaign and Political Finance since 1994, indicated he has evidence the Fattmans and Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons violated campaign finance laws. Sullivan sent the matter to the attorney general’s office on Thursday to review for a possible lawsuit or criminal charges, the newspaper reports.