Posted on 06/26/2011 11:12:24 AM PDT by reaganaut1
TENARES, Dominican Republic — The night that William Lantigua was elected the first Latino mayor in Massachusetts history, people in this remote city surrounded by cocoa farms and coffee plantations felt as if they had won, too. For months in 2009, Tenares residents had called and e-mailed friends and relatives in the city of Lawrence, almost 2,000 miles away, urging them to vote for Lantigua.
“He wouldn’t have won without the support from Tenares,’’ said Fermin Tejada, a councilor in this city which has sent hundreds, if not thousands, of residents to live in Lawrence since the 1960s. Tejada said he personally called eight to 10 friends in Lawrence on behalf of Lantigua, and many neighbors did the same, helping Lantigua to a narrow victory of about 1,000 votes.
A few weeks after Lantigua’s inauguration, a garbage truck rolled into town — courtesy of the new mayor of Lawrence.
“That’s the garbage truck that was a gift from Lantigua,’’ said Jose Rafael Gonzalez, the man in charge of garbage collection in Tenares, pointing at the big truck on a muddy, rain-spattered hilltop on the outskirts of town. “It’s in good condition. It’s the father of the municipality.’’
The garbage truck — the only one in town — is the pride of this impoverished city at the foot of the mountains in the northern Dominican Republic. But, like so much that is connected to Mayor Lantigua, the vehicle is at the center of controversy and allegations that he abused his power.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Lantigua’s administration has overseen the illegal shipment of city and private vehicles from Massachusetts to the Dominican Republic, including surplus undercover police vehicles and a school bus, according to two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation.
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Whey is it that our country is a joke? Why do my fellow countrymen put up with this bullcrap?
Ping
This is pretty typical of hispanics here. When they refer to “my country” they mean the country of their birth regardless if they are here legally or not.
I have never heard anyone from SA or CA, or mexico, call the U.S. “my country”.
Most hispanics I know refer to their country as Mexico whether they were born here or there. Even 2 generations removed and they are still Mexicans.
If white people do this, they call it wrong, but blacks and hispanics get a pass.
They might as well change the name of Lawrence to Tijuana.
Nah. Ciudad Lantigua.
Fine!
Did you see the NY Post pic of Whitey and his moll hamming it up on Alcatraz?
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/06/27/media/whitey_front.pdf
HAhaha. Guy has a sense of humor.
Who Whitey or Lantigua? They’re both criminals.
The Alcatraz thing? What a set of balls!!!
Whitey for posing for that picture. A man once held in Alcatraz, currently on the lam, visiting Alcatraz as a tourist. Priceless.
Heard today on Howie's show that Whitey had a 15 y/o “girlfriend”. Also, there might be videos of the “Dog Room” where Whitey used to screw (very) underage girls. Like Howie said, “The worse it sounds, the more likely it's true.”
Still photos from the “Dog Room” encounters have been confirmed to exist. There was an incident where some Southie guys were passing around said pics and one of the guys recognized his then girlfriend, who he dumped, calling her “trash”. IIRC, that same girl OD’ed and died. Good thing Whitey kept drugs out of South Boston. Raccoon, do you remember hearing this?
Murderer, dope dealer, extortionist, thief, rapist and pedophile. What a guy...
Don’t remember that, no...
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