Looking Into the Non-Lobbyist Lobbyist

But he can't do anything about it and no one is talking, no one knows anything (yeah, right, he was his next door neighbor!).

"Galvin looks into possible lobbying violation at lottery; Vendor gained contract after paying Cahill pal" by Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | August 15, 2008

Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office said yesterday that it is looking into whether the Massachusetts State Lottery's largest vendor and one of its consultants, a close friend of state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, violated state lobbying laws.

The chief of Galvin's lobbyist registration division, Alan N. Cote, ordered that letters be sent to Scientific Games International and to Thomas F. Kelly, a Cahill confidant and one of his chief fund-raisers, saying that a Globe report yesterday on Kelly's work raised questions about whether he should be registered as a State House lobbyist.

The Globe reported that Cahill, rejecting recommendations from top aides, steered the lion's share of a $24 million state lottery contract to print tickets and create games to Scientific Games and approved three one-year extensions when the firm was paying anywhere between $132,000 and $170,000 in fees to Kelly. Cahill, as treasurer, leads the Lottery Commission.

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And MORE:

"Lottery vendor paid $132,000 to Cahill ally; Treasurer steered tens of millions to a ticket maker" by Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | August 14, 2008

O.K.

Seeing as this is on page one, I guess the Globe doesn't like the state treasurer.

If you type in Cahill to my blog search you may see why; however, is just a coincidence that they don't go after the governor for corruption when they like him so much?

The Massachusetts State Lottery's largest vendor paid in excess of $132,000 in consulting fees to one of state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill's closest friends and political confidants, at the same time Cahill steered tens of millions of dollars in contracts to the national firm, according to records and officials.

Great.

The lottery just another looting machine for the state -- as we always knew it was -- and the TREASURER dipping at the till, too!!!!!!!!

How many semesters would that pay for, kids?

Cahill has since given Scientific Games three one-year extensions worth over $30 million in additional state payments. As Scientific Games was successfully vying for its contract renewal and subsequent extensions, the company was paying Thomas F. Kelly $3,000 a month in a consulting arrangement that began in November 2003 and continues today, according to records obtained by the Globe and confirmed by people involved in the payments. Kelly is Cahill's Quincy neighbor, a chief political fund-raiser, and a longtime friend.

Ohhhh, talk about RANK CORRUPTION!!!

While there is nothing overtly illegal about Kelly's role, it again serves as an example on Beacon Hill of political friends appearing on the payrolls of companies who are trying to win lucrative contracts with the state.

Yeah, it is the KIND of THING RON PAUL TALKS ABOUT in his book!!!

The Globe has reported on friends of House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi working on behalf of a software company and a consortium of ticket brokers as they tried to win contracts and push legislation beneficial to their cause.

Yeah, I KNOW about the RANK CORRUPTION down there in Bahstun!

Aides recommended splitting the $24 million contract more evenly among several vendors, instead of renewing the contract with Scientific Games, the world's biggest supplier of instant lottery tickets with over $1 billion a year in revenue.

Wow! Those scratch tickets add up!

True story: I worked in a liquor store once, and this old lady comes in says "gimme a lottery ticket."

Scratches it, and as she is doing it she muttered "damn crooks."

Then she turns her head up and says "Gimme another one."

True story, I kid you not.

America, you are SCREWING YOURSELVES!!!!

Kelly's role during the process is unclear. Invoices that Regan Communications sent to Scientific Games, recently obtained by the Globe, describe Kelly as providing "grass-roots services." An executive with Scientific Games, Thomas Hodgkins, described Kelly in an e-mail yesterday as a "nonlobbyist consultant" hired for his "understanding and insight on the lottery and gaming markets" in Massachusetts.

Oh, so now the ILLEGALITIES and the FUDGING COME OUT!!!!!!

Regan Communications, owned by Boston public relations executive George Regan, said in a written statement that Kelly was hired at the suggestion of Theodore Aleixo, Scientific Games' veteran State House lobbyist and a former state senator, to provide information on the various proposals on Beacon Hill to expand legal gambling in Massachusetts.

Oh, the RANK INCESTUOUSNESS of the WHOLE HILL!!!!!!!!!!

It IS TIME for a REVOLUTION, AmeriKa!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!

According to the Regan invoices, Regan paid Kelly's company, CanAm Consultants, $3,000 a month, then billed Scientific Games for the payment. Regan also billed Scientific Games $5,000 a month for its own services.

Cha-ching, cha-CHING, huh?

Kelly has no apparent gambling expertise. A top deputy to state Treasurer Robert Q. Crane in the 1980's, he is an influential but little-known figure in state political circles, best known for his sometimes controversial work marketing investment firms to public pension funds.

Oh, no wonder this state is up to its eyeballs in debt and is in so much trouble!!!!

In 2005, Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan uncovered what he called "a secret arrangement," in which Kelly and a colleague received $2.8 million in hidden fees charged to the Middlesex Country Retirement System for an investment they arranged and that lost $35 million.

It's called LOOTING!!!! Holy shit!!!

And this guy is in good with the TREASURERE, huh?

In the private sector, Kelly is still heavily dependent on public officials, and he regularly raises money for political candidates.

Translation: This guy is a PARASITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A LOOTING POLITICAL PARASITE!!!

Three months after the Lottery Commission gave the firm the work, Scientific Games' chief executive, A. Lorne Weil, hosted a fund-raiser in Manhattan at the Water Club, a pricey restaurant on the East River. Campaign reports show that Weil and his associates raised nearly $20,000 for Cahill's campaign committee at the Oct. 26, 2004 event.

It's called a KICKBACK, BG!!! It's all right, you can say it!!!

I know you love the agenda-pushing politicians on the hill and think they are great, but you can SMELL the STINK of RAMPANT CORRUPTION, right?

Hodgkins did not respond to questions about his firm's fund-raising activities for Cahill. Ronayne, Cahill's spokeswoman, said the treasurer did not know of any role Kelly played in setting up the fund-raising event.

Yeah, THEY DON'T KNOW NUTHIN when you CATCH 'EM in the COOKIE JAR!!!!!!

Kelly has been a Cahill insider since the treasurer was elected treasurer of Norfolk County in 1996. Kelly is a one of several top fund-raisers for the treasurer, say those familiar with Cahill's political operations."

Oh, I'm GAGGING on the STENCH from Boston and I'm 90 miles away!!!

Why does the Globe not reference the $2.8 billion swindle on the 435 million loss to the Mass. taxpayers today, readers?

Why do they obfuscate and hide so many things?

Because deep down, they are still elite friends at the end of the day?

Wouldn't want us to know how rank this state really is, huh?