I was very confused reading this. I thought it happened last week.

Then I realized i was thinking of Wayland’s chief (the town next to Natick) who got shitcanned for sexually assaulting the women who worked for Wayland PD.

> December 5, 2022

> Wayland Police Chief Sean Gibbons will step down later this month after an independent review corroborated allegations that he violated the department’s sexual harassment policy, the town announced Monday.

> In 2003, Gibbons allegedly met a trainee at a Billerica bar, invited them to his home, gave them wine, and had sex with them.

> “I felt very confused. Looking at the power dynamic, yes, that is an assault, but at the same time, I just feel like I didn’t push him off me, I didn’t say no,” the trainee later told an investigator, according to the redacted report.

> While attending a conference in Springfield in 2010, Gibbons reportedly had drinks at a Hooters restaurant with another department member. Both were allegedly intoxicated when Gibbons drove them to their hotel, and Gibbons followed the person into their room and had sex with them.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/12/05/wayland-police-chief-sean-gibbons-resign-sexual-harassment/

You are in an an abusive relationship and you don’t like living in MA? That’s what’s sad here.

My goodness. Move to Alabama or Kentucky or whatever “landlord friendly” state you think is going to give one shit about you and your boyfriend issues.

You said you are financially well off. So here’s my advice:

1. get a lawyer who can advise you on getting your boyfriend out as well as getting whatever abuse prevention order will be needed. Your BF seems like he gives zero shits about you and likes living rent feee on your dime. He is beyond absurd to live there rent free…but he is also calling your bluff and ignoring/manipulating you until you force his hand. And instead of blaming him and getting your ass in gear to solve this, you blame MA as if our courts are your real issue.

2. Never cohabitate with a free-loader. Regardless of what state you live in…that’s on you.

3. Never date or cohabitate with someone who is so immature and abusive that they can’t even discuss issues like the ones you are bringing up. He was living with his goddamn mommy before you saved his struggling ass to live rent free in your pad. Guess what…you are now his mommy and how’s that going?

4. You don’t get to shit on the state we all live in, shit on all of the common-sense advice that anyone with half a brain would accept, and then throw a wall up and say DO NOT COME FOR MEEEEE!!!

• You dug you own hole.

• You came here.

• You asked for advice.

• You know very well what is needed here.

Both you and your BF are acting like kids. You are both in shit situations of your own doing.

Time to grow up and take charge or you can keep yelling at strangers.

Probably was Dane Cook.

He’s known for B and E’s where nothing gets taken.

And he’s from Boston, so give him a call and ask him why.

So, I will say this: offering to pay a whole year up front is a bit of a red flag. Even though you think it shows financial strength, it can come off to the landlord as “why is this person so desperate…why doesn’t anyone else want to rent to them?”

I’d would 100% rent to you if I had confidence that your source of income was stable. If your wages are from a w-2, the bigger concern to me is “what industry is this person in, and what’s their educational background/likely salary progression/ability to find replacement work if they are downsized?”

The fact that your fiancé is going to make a ton of money in FUTURE years is wonderful for you both. BUT…to expect a landlord to value that TODAY means you are asking them to take you on as business partners and absorb risk that she will be able to get her green-card and land that job. This is a year or so away (by your admission) and it does zero for a landlord wanting to know how the next 12 months of rent will get paid.

My advice would be to condense your elevator pitch down to only the critical stuff a landlord wants to hear. I’d lead with “I have PERFECT credit. I pay all my bills. We are educated and successful. My fiancé is anticipating a large salary bump down the road (maybe hint at her industry if it’s medicine or law, but don’t mention immigration status - it’s none of a landlords business and will only work against you) and in the meantime, we have plenty of money saved up since we have always been a frugal and financially responsible couple. We are quiet, clean professionals and this place seems perfect for what we are looking for (flattery is always nice and shows you are sincere about wanting that apartment and not indifferent/flakey/looking at thirty similar units). The rent amount and deposits aren’t a problem for us, we can meet to sign a lease and give deposits as soon as you are ready. (being able to move quickly and decisively is really important). Look forward to hearing back from you!”

I say this all because a landlord’s three biggest concerns are (in order):

1. is this person sincere about wanting this place, or if I take it off the market…will they waste three weeks with stories about why they can’t scrap together a deposit

2. will I get paid on time

3. will these tenants take care of the place/be a hassle/wreck the place.

All you are trying to do when applying is prove that you are presenting zero worries about either of those three things.

I’ve been a landlord/developer for almost 30 years in almost every Boston neighborhood. This underwriting approach to tenants has never failed me. I had zero Covid deadbeats and have had 100% occupancy for well over a decade in dozens of units.

I mean, he’s prosecuted horrific war criminals and has an extensive background getting convictions against elected officials for public corruption charges.

So yeah. He’s seen some shit and he gives no fucks if you are a lawless or corrupt politician. He’s the right guy for the job.

Enjoy prison you dipshit traitor.

The Patriot Front would have a reserved dining car on the Orange line with a taxpayer funded open bar in order to celebrate “free speech” while they rode back to their piece of shit Honda Accords with out of state plates parked at Oak Grove.

We can only hope.

Yes. I’m fully aware of what the term means. From your link:

> In criminal law, a suspended sentence is an alternative to imprisonment where a judge may partially or entirely suspend the convicted individual's prison or jail sentence so long as they fulfill certain conditions.

Sure. That’s a nice policy goal. But my point was that I doubt this guy, as a racist extremist, is going to be “rehabilitated” by facing zero consequence.

These folks tend to get worse as they age rather than better.

And by coddling them with probation and suspended sentences, all we do is send the message that being a domestic terrorist has near zero consequences.

“But jail will only radicalize them further!”

IMO, letting them roam around free to associate with their hate groups also only radicalizes them further and places innocent people at risk of harm.

Jail sucks, but there is no excuse in a civilized society for what these hate groups are doing, and they need to be jailed when they break the law.

These folks need more than a slap on the wrist. Why are 179 of the 180 days in jail “suspended”?

I read the article.

And the bullshit of blaming FAS for violent acts against others insults folks who suffer from FAS.

FAS didn’t make this person slit a throat.

Why do I say that?

It is estimated that in Canada, more than 3,000 babies a year are born with FASD, and about 300,000 people are currently living with it.

How many do them slit throats on the subway?

If it’s 150,000 of them…sure, maybe it’s the FAS.

But it’s not.

Don’t be like the judge and blame FAS for this grown-ass man’s decision to attempt to kill someone. That’s on him.

> Snukal said sending Crane to a federal prison would just make him a further danger to society upon his eventual release.

This sounds like a judge who philosophically doesn’t believe in prison time for anyone, simply because it might make people more dangerous.

And yes. There’s some truth to that.

But we are currently at “this guy slashes the throat of strangers in cold blood”.

To me it’s not a question of whether jail will reform him or make him “worse” somehow.

You don’t “accidentally” find yourself slashing a stranger’s throat.

Whats needed here is a big dose of “specific deterrence” (locking up THAT offender so that HE can’t commit another crime in the future).

Shoplifting, petty theft, drug use, sure. Keep those folks out of jail and focus on rehabilitation. Those are often crimes of necessity.

But violent attacks like this are clear signs that someone is already so mentally unfit for society that institutionalizing them (by putting them in jail or a mental hospital for a long term) is the only option IMO.

The blood of the next victim of this career criminal will be on the judge’s hands.

Lemme guess…another Republican to add to the THOUSANDS of Republican office holders who rape or molest kids or who are in to child porn?

I’m shocked.

There are pedophile rings among the Republican party.

Republican Ralph Shortey, Donald Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair and former Oklahoma state senator, was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. He plead guilty to child sex trafficking.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-oklahoma-campaign-chair-plead-guilt-child-sex-trafficking-n822461?fbclid=IwAR142W77Q5Dan71BsxC_5uH8h1BBA4EGyqP_VMsrx7lSvoPX9Njjvt0oHK0

Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html

Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/

Republican congressman Mark Foley, in charge of the congressional caucus dealing with exploited children and predominant anti-gay politician, caught sexually harassing 16 year old page boys working under him.

https://www.cc.com/video/u1k1hb/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-headlines-foley-erect

Republican Pennsylvania State Senator, Mike Folmer, arrested and convicted of child pornography charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Folmer

Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php

Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html

Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=437

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755

Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

https://culteducation.com/group/1255-false-memories/6514-man-in-notorious-sex-case-finishes-term.html

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

https://www.semissourian.com/story/57773.html

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2002/6/21/23202/Tennessee-Legislator-Commits-Suicide.aspx

24 pages more here - https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/28/2028057/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-24

Awww, you assume I’m a fatass? Good for you.

I’m amazingly healthy and well off. As is my spouse and 4 kids. It’s just that I care about people, even if I’ve never met them. I want folks who suffer from diseases and poor health to have good health insurance because it’s the right thing to do. And I believe it costs us less as a society if we have access to proper medical care. (Just look at how shitty the life expectancies and economies are in the deep red states. You can’t have a thriving economy when everyone is sick.)

So while your concern trolling about me being a fat slob is way off the mark, sure, let’s talk about each other’s lives. Except I won’t guess and be wildly wrong.

• You are “40-something”.

• You seem overly proud of perceiving yourself as some top physical specimen. (Newsflash, almost all of my 40-something peers from grad school have also never/rarely been in the ER, and don’t have drinking or drug problems.)

• You are still dating in your mid-40’s, and find yourself having to deceive potentials partners about your entire belief system and shitty political views in attempts to get laid.

• On top of that, in your pea brain, any woman who has slept with more than 5 guys by age 40 is a whore:

> Meh, I'm a man who votes Republican but when it comes to dating, if I think I'm in the presence of someone who leans left and I'm attracted to them, I'll just flat out lie and say I'm a Democrat if the topic comes up. No real way for them to find out the truth (I keep all my papers in a safe and I have a common name so a Google search wouldn't turn up anything), so that solves that issue.

> But more importantly, with all the lies women tell about themselves in relationships (that scene in Clerks about "37 dicks" is a dead-on representation of how some women will use "weasel words" to essentially lie), me lying about my political affiliations is small potatoes.

> I'd rather date a woman who was actually a Democrat and lied by saying she was Republican than a woman who told me she has 5 sexual partners but warped definitions in her head in order to conceal the fact that she'd actually had 40.

(this was your third most recent comment)

And you are not emotionally available to consider that not everyone lies all the time like you.

For instance, assuming someone you were on a date with, who claims they were raped, MUST be lying:

> I lost interest in an actual real-life hot girl I knew after she told me her ex-boyfriend had r*ped her when they were dating. It seemed like something you wouldn't share with a guy you barely knew if it had actually happened, so I assumed she was exaggerating and gradually cut off all contact with her.

You are a massively insecure person. You are so dishonest and lie for everything you want, you can’t understand why anyone would be honest with you.

You can’t comprehend that most folks are good people who don’t have to lie about who they are to get what they want.

And at some level you know that. Otherwise a woman who has dated more than 5 men wouldn’t be a threat to your low self-esteem.

Best of luck finding a “worthy” partner.

And please keep lying to folks since you know you are a shitty person who lies to romantic partners because you know damn well nobody would give you the time of day if you revealed your true self to them.

Go look into whether helicopters are covered by insurance when you are airlifted somewhere. It’s like $35k. Or ambulance rides. Easily $1k per ride.

Or an insane amount of other “non-covered” expenses.

He says Twitter will be a town square like it’s a good thing.

You ever go to a town square? There’s five crazy people with bullhorns yelling insane shit 24/7.

Why is that his ideal?

And that’s just if the owe the dead-ass minimum to qualify for the $2k and $10k thresholds.

My guess is there’s a lot of $100k+ folks out there.

There’s a reason bankruptcy is incredibly likely for folks who have a bad medical event like a car crash, cancer, surgery, or a heart attack.

No other civilized country operates this way.

You can thank the GOP and conservative voters for why we can’t have nice things.

Jesus. That’s horrific.

Yes, and the cops faced zero consequences IIRC on the Freddie Gray case.

Although the city taxpayers coughed up something like $5m.

Weird how that works.

We will see if this attempted murder by the police gets handled any differently.

Nice! Thank you!

Where are all the free public rinks? Is there a website?

Yet, cared enough to comment. So…

I’ve been there. Was great.

The $5 million plus home market sells to business executives, pro athletes, lawyers, and senior bankers.

Their earnings have never been higher than they are now. Regardless of what happens in the economy, their incomes will be even higher next year, and the year after that.

Wellesley will be just fine.

If there was a glut of $2 million new construction homes in Dedham or Walpole, those might see some softness.

But Weston and Wellesley are two of the most exclusive towns in America, and there is no shortage of massively wealthy people to buy those homes.

It’s not the sex trafficking. You are hung up on that. It’s the financial transactions. It falls under anti-money laundering (AML) “know your customer” rules that banks MUST follow.

Let’s say I have an account at chase as my clearing/client funds account. And a bank I’m a solo/small shop lawyer or a banker.

If all of my “clients” I have are all Swiss bank accounts and cayman accounts and I’m sending and receiving tens of millions of dollars…it sets of various “know your customer” red flags. And the custodial bank (Chase) should be observant of them.

Epstein was engaging in financial transactions that were unexplained by his purported “financial advisory” business.

That’s what these types of suits are about. That the custodial bank missed AML red flags.

Here are several common AML red flag indicators, and note how NONE of them talk about rape or trafficking. It’s all about the financial aspects of the transactions:

1. Secretive new clients who avoid personal contact

Firms should have Know Your Customer (KYC) and customer due diligence (CDD) procedures in place when onboarding new clients. If a customer refuses to answer questions about themselves, firms should consider whether this is suspicious, especially if they have criminal associations, or know an unusual amount about the money laundering process.

2. Unusual transactions

Customers trying to launder funds may carry out unusual transactions. Firms should look out for activity that is inconsistent with their expected behavior, such as large cash payments, unexplained payments from a third party, or use of multiple or foreign accounts. These are all AML red flags.

3. Unusual source of funds

Transactions involving large amounts of cash or private funding could indicate money laundering, and if cash deposits or complex crypto assets are involved, identifying the source can be difficult.

4. Transaction has unusual features

The size, nature or frequency of transactions, or repetitive instructions involving common features, are all AML red flags. Firms should be particularly alert if a transaction appears unusual for the customer’s profile, or if there is unexplained urgency.

5. Geographic concerns

If a firm is not local to the customer, why are they using it? Unexplained connections with – and movement of money between – jurisdictions should also raise suspicions.

6. Politically exposed persons

Individuals – and their family and associates – in high positions are more vulnerable to corruption and could pose a higher risk of money laundering for quid-pro-quo favors or kickbacks. While no standardized global definition exists, PEPs typically include heads of state, senior politicians or government officials, judicial or military officials, senior executives of state-owned corporations, or important political party officials.

7. Ultimate beneficial ownership is unclear

Ultimate beneficial owners are the people who ultimately own or manage a company. Complex ownership structures, or the use of shell companies, could be an attempt to disguise criminal activities and carry out financial crime.

8. Jurisdiction risk

Some countries or jurisdictions have high levels of corruption, unstable governments, or are known as money laundering havens. They could also have inadequate AML/CFT regulatory and judicial frameworks, or be subject to economic sanctions. Transactions that involve these countries should be carefully monitored as AML red flags.

9. Sanctions exposure

It is important that firms review relevant international sanctions lists to ensure that customers are not sanctioned themselves, or involved, or transacting with, a sanctioned entity. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated, sanctions lists are subject to change at short notice. This means firms need to ensure they have a real-time plan for managing rapid changes.

10. Adverse media

Additional checks may also be needed if the customer is a subject of negative news media in any part of the world, as this could increase AML risk. Firms should ensure their adverse media screening is appropriately aligned with common predicate offenses.