Please consider a number of items posted previously on this website in regard to public safety. Sheriff James Cummings and District Attorney Michael O'Keefe sat on the Barnstable Human Service Needs Committee chaired by Royden Richardson, (D-Centerville). The Barnstable Human Service Needs Committee was established in 1991 to address concerns with the homeless of Hyannis and the effect of human services on business in the downtown area. Richarson had significant ties to law enforcement and municipal politics. At the time the committee was established, Richardson was serving as the President of the Barnstable Town Council.
Royden Richardson was a probation officer at Barnstable Superior Court, dismissed in 1987 for allegations involving underage boys. Sheriff Jack DeMello covered up the incident after Richardson was charged and convicted of a lesser crime. Richarson's record is sealed in the Brockton Superior Court. Chief John Finnegan, dismissed in 2005 after evidence of corruption was discovered, also sat on the Barnstable Human Service Needs Committee. A number of rapes and homicides occurred as Housing Assistance Corporation planned lavish and extravagant expansion projects at taxpayer expense.
The organizations responsible for placing unrecovered and unrehabilitated clients onto the streets have yet to take responsibility for uncontrollable clients. Housing Assistance Corporation and The Duffy Clinic continue to bill third party insurance and the Office of Transitional Assistance for the overflow of convicted felons, narcotics addicts, and sex offenders. Materials confirming corruption were forwarded to Paul Niedzwiecki, Esq. Paul Neidzwiecki was formerly the Chief Financial Officer for the District Attorney's Office and served as the Town of Barnstable Assistant Town Manager. He is also a former legislative aide to John Klimm and Henri Rauschenbach. Rauschenbach was charged and acquitted of influence peddling in 1994. Niedzwiecki is married to the daughter of Jim Cummings.
Evidence provided to Paul Niedzwiecki included items demonstrating that the perpetrators of a number of high profile rape-homicides were known to the NOAH Shelter. Melissa Gosule, Christa Worthington, and Jonathan Wessner of Falmouth, were all murdered by known perpetrators with ties to the NOAH Shelter and surrounding properties. Rick Presbrey denied that there were any serious offenders known to human services in the Hyannis area. Presbrey referred to clients that complained about dangerous conditions and negligent operating standards at the shelter as "irresponsible". Senator Rob O'Leary(D) and District Attorney Michael O'Keefe(R), accepted sizable campaign contributions from agency executives and attorneys representing the organization to promote lavish, expensive, and amorphous projects.
Law enforcement continues to read, view and forward pornography at government expense. Parents of the murder victims continue to wonder why the organization, executives and authorities have not been investigated for corruption. The informants and material witness providing evidence was intimidated, arrested, and charged with criminal harassment of the police department. Roy Richardson is the father-in-law of Fred Chirigotis, President of the Barnstable Town Council, and the father of Rebecca Richardson of Wynn and Wynn, PC. Michael Princi, of Wynn and Wynn is the attorney representing Housing Assistance Corporation on a number of initiatives, including the $11.5 million dollar Dana's Field's Project.
BOURNE, Mass. -- The Barnstable County sheriff has said he intends to punish the high-ranking officials in his department who have used office computers to exchange off-color and pornographic e-mails.
Sheriff James Cummings told the Cape Cod Times that at the very least he would add a letter of reprimand to each employee's personnel file that would cost them their annual $1,000 good behavior bonus.
He said punishments could be more severe, but did not specify what those might be.
An investigation by the newspaper found that the questionable e-mails came from a half dozen accounts covering a handful of specific dates in September and November 2008 and late June through July 2009.
Some of those who sent the e-mails have expressed embarrassment and remorse.
Sheriff To Workers: No Porn At The Office
Barnstable Sheriff Says Letters To Go In Officials' Files
POSTED: 9:00 am EDT August 6, 2009
