Stealth hackerama: Just how big is it?
This is a guy who heads an agency responsible for millions of federal dollars a year supposedly going to combat poverty. His office was in the same building as recently re-elected Congress critter Niki Tsongas - apparently she had no idea that a six-figure no-show was right in her building. Imagine that. Obviously the complete and utter lack of anything resembling work doesn't phase our US representatives...And so farewell, Philip F. Laverriere Sr., out of his $145,000 anti-poverty hack job at the age of 85 after the Lawrence newspaper caught him lounging away his afternoons at the local Elks Club, playing video poker and smoking cigars.
The Eagle Tribune said the Navy veteran of World War II told them he’d been spending his afternoons at the Elks for three years.
It's really hard to decide which is worse: That this guy spent years working half-days at $145 large a year, or that there are six figure jobs in MA that apparently don't even need to be done...
That is all.
4 comments:
Cut the old geezer some slack... after all he's spent the last 40 years reduceing the poverty levels in Lawrence. Since he took office in 1974 the amount of poverty has dropped to.......
Oh wait.....never mind.
Maybe he thought he'd retired and was living on his pension.
So how much of those Anti-Poverty Millions was he spending on Video Poker Machines? You KNOW he wasn't playing with his own cash!
Um... BOTH???
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