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With Election Day a week away, William Hudak has filed a Superior Court suit claiming U.S. Rep. John Tierney's reelection campaign made “false and defamatory” statements in political advertisements about the Boxford Republican's issues positions.

Congressman John Tierney tried to put his wife's legal troubles behind him during a contentious television debate last night with Republican Bill Hudak. Fox 25 news anchor Maria Stephanos began by asking Tierney about his wife, Patrice, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false federal tax returns. She admitted to managing a bank account for her brother, Robert Eremian, that contained $7 million of his illegal gambling profits. "You live with your wife: How could this go on for so long, for so many years, and you didn't know a thing about...

"The wife of US Representative John F. Tierney is poised to plead guilty today to federal tax charges for managing a bank account that her brother allegedly used to deposit millions of dollars in illegal gambling profits raked in from an offshore sports betting operation in Antigua." Of course Big Brother’s not really mad at Mrs. Tierney for dabbling in illegal offshore gambling… They’re just pissed it’s being done where they can’t get their cut... ...In other Massachusetts news, perhaps you thought the Beer Summit of 2009 and all its attendant brouhaha had finally faded out of public consciousness. [Cambridge]...

Canadian cleared of arms charges Associated Press POSTED AT 6:40 PM EST Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003   Advertisement Albuquerque, N.M. — A Canadian businessman charged with providing military training to foreign soldiers without a licence and stockpiling hundreds of missile warheads at his counterterrorism school in southern New Mexico was found not guilty Wednesday of all charges. A jury acquitted David Hudak, 42, of nine federal felony charges that included accusations of training foreign soldiers without proper government approval and stockpiling 2,400 small warheads at his High Energy Access Tools company. Mr. Hudak, of Vancouver, had faced a minimum 30-year...