Was Nick Mavroulas, form Peabody, Tierney’s predecessor? He also, as I recall, caught up in a financial scandal.
Mavroules pleaded guilty to fifteen counts in April 1993 and was sentenced to a fifteen-month prison term.
I think Nicky Pockets was succeeded by one term GOPer Peter Thorkildsen, who at least had the all-important North Shore Norwegian community sewed up.
yes Nicky Pockets whose code word for bribes was “bottle of wine” (as in, do you have the five bottles of wine? =
$5,000). Howie Carr would play “Bottle of Wine” by the
Fireballs on his show.
I think Mavroules served time in Danbury CT? Now dead.
He “brought home the bacon/pork”—money from being on
Armed Service Cmte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mavroules
>>He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992, losing to Peter Torkildsen. He served on the House Armed Services Committee.
Torky may have won twice, in ‘92 and ‘94. Tierney won in
‘96 by about 300 votes.
>>Mavroules was voted out of office in 1992, the year he was indicted on seventeen counts of corruption amid a federal investigation into alleged misuse of his office for private gain. Allegations included extortion, accepting illegal gifts and failing to report them on congressional disclosure and income tax forms.
Mavroules pleaded guilty to fifteen counts in April 1993 and was sentenced to a fifteen-month prison term.
Torky:
>>He then went on to represent Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district as a Republican for two terms, from 1993 until 1997...He was narrowly defeated in the Presidential-year elections of 1996 by Democrat John F. Tierney in a state that voted overwhelmingly for Democratic President Bill Clinton in that year’s Presidential election.