Speaker DeLeo isn’t happy about that Globe report questioning his testimony
House Speaker Robert DeLeo said a Boston Globe report that questioned the veracity of his sworn testimony was a “complete distortion’’ of his statements, The Boston Globe reports.
The Globe article, published on Wednesday, said that DeLeo made statements that were later contradicted during an investigation into illegal patronage in the Probation Department.
In his answers, DeLeo appeared to be unaware of a patronage system that a succession of witnesses, including lawmakers and probation officials, would later describe in detail during the 2014 trial of O’Brien and two top aides, who were convicted of racketeering for their part in the department’s rigged hiring and promotional policies.
DeLeo said he didn’t even know that many probation employees had legislative sponsors.
That investigation led to charges against former probation chief John O’Brien, who was convicted last year of carrying out a rigged hiring scheme. That trial named DeLeo as one of many “unindicted co-conspirators’’ in the scheme.
DeLeo has denied any wrongdoing, and said the recent Globe story took quotes “out of context’’ to “make misrepresentations.’’
Read the full Boston Globe story here.
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