Posted on 07/07/2016 6:15:29 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
A Huffington Post article slamming U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz for prosecuting “the good guys” has raised questions over whether Mayor Martin J. Walsh is waging a PR counteroffensive against the feds after they indicted two top City Hall aides on extortion charges.
Walsh’s chief of staff, Daniel A. Koh, formerly served as chief of staff to Huffington Post Editor Arianna Huffington and as general manager of Huffington Post Live before joining the mayor’s inner circle. Walsh told the Herald last night that he and his staff had no involvement in yesterday’s Huffington Post story titled, “This Federal Prosecutor Is Building A Career Indicting The Good Guys.”
But he admitted he knew it was “in the works.”
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He told the Herald he was motivated to write about Ortiz in a broader way after her office indicted Walsh tourism chief Kenneth Brissette in May, allegedly for withholding city permits from a music festival unless it hired union stagehands.
The article was celebrated and shared on social media by Walsh’s organized labor allies yesterday.
Scott Ferson, president of Liberty Square Group and former press secretary to Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said the article was widely viewed in town as a counter-punch to Ortiz, particularly after her office arrested and indicted Walsh aide and former Massachusetts AFL–CIO legislative director Tim Sullivan last week on the same charges as Brissette.
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