Board Stops Pension Payments To Former Lobbyist

By The WBUR Newsroom
Feb 23, 2012, 4:32 PM
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BOSTON — The state retirement board is immediately stopping pension payments to a former high-profile lobbyist.

State Treasurer Steve Grossman says an investigation shows Richard McDonough did no actual work for the state at the Merrimack Education Collaborative.

“Mr. McDonough tried to fraudulently pass himself off as a state employee to gain access to the state retirement system,” Grossman said. “He was not entitled to the state pension and benefits granted to him.”

After a hearing, Grossman says the state will try to recoup pension payments wrongly made to McDonough.

The former lobbyist is currently serving a seven-year federal prison sentence, after pleading guilty in the corruption case involving former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi.

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Merrimack Educational Collaborative Crooks

1. Take away their pensions.
2. Make the pension system whole, even if it means seizing personal property.
3. Send them to jail.

These bums stole from the most helpless among us, and the very people whose welfare they were entrusted with.

And they give honest hard working public servants a black eye.

Barranco, McCormick, McDonough, and all the rest are bad news for all of us.