Category: Michael McLaughlin

Selective enforcement and the public slumlord: Part 3, the conflicts of interest

20 January, 2012 (11:27) | Chelsea, Corruption, Enforcement, Law, Massachusetts, Michael McLaughlin, Public housing, Regulation, Rental |

[Concluded from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – George Orwell   Bad enough it is, as we saw in preceding parts, that the Chelsea Housing Authority as controlled by the deceitful and now-fired Michael McLaughlin used [...]

Selective enforcement and the public slumlord: Part 2, the value of unenforced defaults

19 January, 2012 (10:11) | Chelsea, Corruption, Enforcement, Law, Massachusetts, Michael McLaughlin, Public housing, Regulation, Rental |

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. – Niccolo Machiavelli   Self-interested reasons, that is   Yesterday we saw that under the leadership of overpaid duplicitous former director Michael McLaughlin, the Chelsea Housing Authority aggressively enforced against complaining residents while ignoring those [...]

Selective enforcement and the public slumlord: Part 1, the power of intimidation

18 January, 2012 (10:58) | Chelsea, Corruption, Enforcement, Law, Massachusetts, Michael McLaughlin, Public housing, Regulation, Rental |

  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton   By:David A. Smith   Few are more powerful than an imperious public housing authority director   Turn over a rock and the beetles scurry, and if you watch attentively, you can learn a lot of entomological ecology.    You insect, Gregor [...]

Falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus

6 January, 2012 (09:11) | Boston, Corruption, Michael McLaughlin, Public housing, Regulation, US News |

By:David A. Smith   For the Romans, who knew a thing or two about the forms of government, false in one thing, false in all.  It’s a sound principle of human behavior that we use to judge political candidates, athletes, and others whom we do not know.    Quick, take my picture while I’m on [...]