Guilty Verdict #2 2.) Illegal gratuity in the hiring on or about July 3, 2007 of Michael Sheridan: John J. O’Brien, proven. a. “Rep. Harold Naughton testified Monday… but said the phone call he received from an aide to Rep. Robert DeLeo in the summer of 2007 was unique in his more than two decades in the Legislature. In that call, DeLeos aide at the time, Lenny Mirasolo, told Naughton about one job opening in the Clinton Democrats home city, at a new electronic monitoring facility run by the probation department, and asked if Naughton had a referral, Naughton testified. . Naughton said he recommended Michael Sheraton, the son of an attorney in the area he knew professionally and Sheraton later received a job. Naughton said he was aware in the summer of 2007 that DeLeo was positioning himself to succeed Salvatore DiMasi as speaker of the House, something DeLeo achieved after DiMasis January 2009 resignation.” (SOURCE: STATE CAPITOL BRIEFS - AFTERNOON EDITION - MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE) b. He was speaking to me about the votes they were trying to obtain for the speakers race, Ryan said about a conversation he had with OBrien… (SOURCE: WITNESS: JOB PLACEMENTS PLAYED ROLE IN BUILDING SUPPORT FOR DeLEO, By Andy Metzger, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE,, JULY 1, 2014) c. Those jobs were given to Lenny Mirasolo…. for the speaker of the Houses race, Ryan said.(SOURCE: WITNESS: JOB PLACEMENTS PLAYED ROLE IN BUILDING SUPPORT FOR DeLEO, By Andy Metzger, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE,, JULY 1, 2014) d. “The Employment of M.S. [Michael Sheridan] M.S. was sponsored for employment as an assistant ELMO coordinator by a member of the house of Representatives who received information about the employment opportunity through the then Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. M.S. was hried without an interview as a temporary employee and currently remains employed by the Probation Department.” (O’Brien Indictment) e. “Asked what he expected in return from lawmakers who were contacted by his office and received job-filling offers, DeLeo said, ‘I’m sure obviously that they would obviously feel grateful that I called’.(SOURCE: State House News Service, Michael Norton. “Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo says probation scandal prosecutors did not prove bribery occurred”)\ We Must Change Beacon Hill in 2014.
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