Former Peabody mayor Nick Mavroules, who passed on some years ago, later became US Rep for the 6th District. His downfall: He had to retire due to ill health. The voters got sick of him...and...
>>Mavroules was voted out of office in 1992, the year he was indicted on seventeen counts of corruption amid a federal investigation into alleged misuse of his office for private gain. Allegations included extortion, accepting illegal gifts and failing to report them on congressional disclosure and income tax forms. Mavroules pleaded guilty to fifteen counts in April 1993 and was sentenced to a fifteen-month prison term.
He had a code of “five bottles of wine”—$5,000—with his son in law, I think (and the son in law turned him in?). Howie used to play “Bottle of Wine” by the Fireballs in
honor of that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOMA378hAg
You mean “Nicky Pockets” Mavroules? Right?
hahaha