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Boston Mayor’s finance director charged with money laundering in prison drug smuggling scheme
/www.msn.com ^ | 2/10/2023 | bob ward

Posted on 02/11/2023 8:28:32 AM PST by bitt

Freda Brasfield, the Administration and Finance Director in Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office, was arraigned Friday on money laundering charges in an alleged prison drug smuggling scheme.

Brasfield, who is also a longtime Boston Democratic political activist and community organizer, appeared in Woburn Superior Court, along with two co-defendants, Jaime Liberty and Jayleen Rivera, both of whom are facing charges of conspiring to smuggle drugs into MCI Shirley.

Brasfield, who is represented by Boston attorney David Meier, entered a plea of not guilty to one charge of money laundering and a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Brasfield, Liberty, and Rivera were released on personal recognizance.

According to records on file at Woburn Superior Court, a grand jury indicted Freda Brasfield on Dec. 15, 2022.

Prosecutors allege the smuggling scheme stretches back to January 2021 and that it involved a conspiracy to smuggle synthetic cannabinoids known as K2 and Spice into MCI Shirley. Prosecutors say it involved four inmates, including Brasfield’s nephew, and five “non-incarcerated relations or significant others,” including Freda Brasfield.

According to the Commonwealth’s Statement of the Case, Manuel “Junior” Dasilva, a former MCI Shirley inmate, worked with the nine co-defendants to get synthetic drugs inside MCI Shirley.

The use of synthetic drugs is a growing problem inside the Massachusetts prison system.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; brasfield; communityorganizer; democrat; fredabrasfield; massachusetts; michellewu; politicalactivist; ricardopatron
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To: bitt

CAN’T WAIT FOR HOWIE’S SHOW ON THIS, LOL...

Meanwhile, there’s this..

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/10/howie-carr-sununus-kamikaze-run-for-president/


21 posted on 02/11/2023 8:54:11 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: dennisw

Getting her own “EARLY REPARATIONS” ???


22 posted on 02/11/2023 8:55:20 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

At least it wasn’t chicken wings. How would that look during Black History Month?


23 posted on 02/11/2023 9:00:59 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bitt; All

My word, she truly does look stupid.


24 posted on 02/11/2023 9:18:19 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: bitt

Boston City Hall Financial Director Freda Brasfield was criminally INDICTED in DECEMBER 2022. But allowed to keep working/collecting a pay check under @MayorWu until today? City Hall failed to respond to @boston25 in a timely fashion. So much for #transparency Michelle Wu. Fraud! pic.twitter.com/8cGHfMOhJr— Boston First Responders United (BFRU) (@BostonFRU) February 10, 2023

https://twitter.com/BostonFRU/status/1624185285209690114
25 posted on 02/11/2023 9:37:13 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

Putting thief in charge of finances! Great!


26 posted on 02/11/2023 9:37:19 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: bitt

27 posted on 02/11/2023 9:37:54 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

Community Organizer.


28 posted on 02/11/2023 9:48:29 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: bitt

The government officials generally operate in secret while the government has unrestricted access and employs surveillance of the public. Only when government officials act on an egregiously illegal manner do they get caught.
It’s even worse with federal agencies. Federal FOIAs are nearly impossible for regular citizens.


29 posted on 02/11/2023 10:03:35 AM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: bitt

Looks like Aretha Franklin.


30 posted on 02/11/2023 10:41:40 AM PST by nwrep
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To: bitt

Another street urchin that moved up the leader of color


31 posted on 02/11/2023 1:29:56 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: dennisw

WE WUZ KWEENS!


32 posted on 02/11/2023 1:32:57 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: bitt

What? another corrupt democrat?

(With apologies to rdl6989 who posted it first.)


33 posted on 02/11/2023 1:58:00 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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To: bitt

They are all corrupt! If you want to know why our taxes are so high, look at all the corrupt politicians and their cronies. (See Biden family for Exhibit A).


34 posted on 02/11/2023 1:59:45 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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