The Winthrop Retirement Board is appealing a judge's decision to allow a state pension for a former police chief who prosecutors say took payments from a video poker operator to look the other way.
Angelo LaMonica pleaded guilty in 1995 to six counts of federal income tax invasion for failing to report payments he received over the course of 14 years while he was serving as a Winthrop police officer.
The comforting thing about Mayor Marty Walsh's offer to use Boston City Hall as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants is that no one will take him up on it.
No one goes to New City Hall unless it's absolutely necessary. A trek across barren City Hall Plaza toward the neo-Brutalist, Stalin-inspired concrete monstrosity already comes with the judge's words at sentencing ringing in your ears.
