2012 Press Releases

Former Attleboro Police Chief Richard Pierce Pays a $3,500 Civil Penalty for Conflict of Interest Law Violations for participating in an internal investigation involving his police officer son, improperly giving his son an internal investigation report and allowing his son to submit late reports.

The Ethics Commission approved a Disposition Agreement in which Lowell Regional Water Utility (“LRWU”) Executive Director Daniel Lahiff (“Lahiff”) admitted to violating G.L. c. 268A, the conflict of interest law, by using an LRWU generator in his home, by soliciting an LRWU employee to transport and connect an LRWU generator to his home furnace during power outages, and by using another LRWU employee to perform private contracting work.  Pursuant to the Agreement, Lahiff paid a $5,000 civil penalty for the violations.

Enforcement Division issued an Order to Show Cause alleging that state Department of Industrial Accidents Administrative Judge Cheryl Jacques violated the conflict of interest law, by invoking her position as a judge when she contacted a dental office on her brother-in-law's behalf and demanded that the office write off the balance of the bill received by her brother-in-law.

Former Avon Assistant Assessor Marjorie Malone pays a $5,000 civil penalty for improperly raising the property assessments of two town officials to retaliate against the town after learning she was subject to disciplinary proceedings.