Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Pension scandal: The Herald's pension investigation is getting more sick and disturbing. Margery Eagan’s account of one Lt. John Mace is a devastating indictment of politics in Massachusetts. Mace, who brutally tried to kill an assistant DA, is now collecting a nearly $73,000 per year pension. That’s right: $73,000. Margery: “This is the so-called Culture of Beacon Hill, of wired law enforcement officials, of the permanent bureaucracy, of the club of the politically connected. They fleece. We pay. Then we re-elect everybody. ... It's the culture, the club. It's what we put up with, day after day, year after year.”
