DEMOCRAT LEADER ARRESTED FOR 113 COUNTS OF BRIBERY,
MONEY LAUNDERING, DEFRAUDING THE IRS, By TP Cadmin, 7/31/18.
Former
Massachusetts State Senator Brian Joyce collected more than $1 million in
bribes and kickbacks through money laundered through his law firm, Joyce Law
Group. According to a sweeping 102-page indictment, Joyce was accused of
running his office as a “criminal enterprise.”
Joyce
lists among his accomplishments 20 years in
the Massachusetts legislature,
including 19 years in the Massachusetts Senate, where he was Assistant Majority
Leader. While serving in the Massachusetts legislature he was Chair of the
Senate Committees on Bonding, Bills in the Third Reading, Capital Expenditures
and State Assets, Election Laws, Federal Financial Assistance, Housing, Public Service, Tourism, and the
Special Committee to Improve Government. He was Vice Chair or a Member of the
Ways and Means, Banking, Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Elder
Affairs, Healthcare Financing, Higher Education, and the
Judiciary Committees.
Yet
the 55-year-old Democrat was reported to have gained more than $1 million
through bribes and kickbacks, along with federal charges of racketeering,
extortion, mail fraud, corruption, embezzlement, honest services fraud, money
laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the IRS. In December of 2017, the
55-year-old was taken into custody by the FBI at his Westport home following a
two-year investigation. In January of 2018 Joyce’s accountant was charged with
helping him file false income tax returns.
Acting
US Attorney William Weinreb stated prosecutors launched an investigation into
Joyce after a series of stories by The Boston Globe beginning in January 2015
detailing concerns with Joyce’s mingling of public and personal
business.
The charges against Joyce reveal a stunning level of corruption.
Joyce chose not to run for reelection in 2016 and then moved
out of Milton, his longtime hometown directly following the FBI and IRS
conducting a raid on his Canton law office. The raid was precipitated by a
series of stories published by the Boston Globe describing various ways in
which Joyce used his public position to get private benefits for both himself
and his family. Suspicions originally arose due to Joyce repeatedly receiving
discounted and sometimes free goods and services, often from businesses in his
legislative district.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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