Our community leaders are dumber then doorknobs:
“I’m shocked and disappointed, but sometimes good people do bad things,” said Mark Paradise, past president of the Westwood school’s Parents’ Council executive board.
Union: Keep paying slay suspect
By Hillary Chabot & Jessica Fargen | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
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The union representing a Pike toll taker accused of dismembering and cooking his cocaine dealer filed a grievance yesterday demanding taxpayers keep shelling out $1,000-plus a week while Paul Moccia’s case weaves its way through court.
“It’s outrageous for the toll payers to pick up the tab while the matter is still being resolved,” said Pike board member Mary Connaughton, who added Moccia is innocent until proven guilty.
Moccia, 48, and his high school buddy Daniel P. Bradley, 47, are accused of killing Angel Ramirez, 37, of Framingham to erase a $70,000 drug debt. Both pleaded not guilty Monday to the grisly killing at Bradley’s concrete plant in Walpole.
Moccia is currently on unpaid leave until his disciplinary hearing, which could take place as soon as this week, a Pike source told the Herald.
His union went to bat for him yesterday, attempting to win back his $53,000 annual salary.
“The union grieves his unjust suspension for the criminal allegation of murder,” wrote a representative from the Local 127 Teamsters union, which represents Massachusetts Turnpike Authority toll collectors.
According to court records, Moccia - divorced three times - is no stranger to cash woes.
Moccia’s last marriage was doomed by his wife’s suspicions about his vast cash flow on a toll collector’s salary, according to a 2008 divorce filing. His then-wife found $30,000 in $100 bills stashed in a brown paper bag inside their Dedham home in the summer of 2008 after Moccia moved out, records state.
“(Moccia) became more and more secretive about how he was able to expend significant sums of money,” on a $1,200-a-week salary, claimed Ibel Moccia, who married and divorced Moccia twice and has a son, 10, with him.
Moccia was also fired as a jail guard in 1987 after a drug arrest and before that lost a job at Boston Edison for alleged drug use, according to the divorce filings.
Bradley was arrested for crack cocaine possession in 2001, but the charge was dismissed, court records show.
Despite that arrest, Bradley was hired by Xaverian Brothers High School in 2002 as an assistant football coach. Bradley, who divorced his first wife, a Canadian waitress, in 2006, lives in Westwood with his fiancee and son, 2. He has lost his part-time job as a coach, the school said yesterday.
Xaverian checked Bradley’s criminal record before hiring him, said spokesman Charles Carmone.
“I’m shocked and disappointed, but sometimes good people do bad things,” said Mark Paradise, past president of the Westwood school’s Parents’ Council executive board.
Bradley and Moccia are being held without bail.
Dan Ventura and Marie Szaniszlo contributed to this report.
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