My new friend Judge Kareem Morgan of Malden District Court Knows I'm Right...ha ha ha ...the DeMaria Mob Family is so Crooked
the former mayor of Everett took money he was not entitled to and tried to cover it up. https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-ethics-commission-carlo-demaria-everett-payments/71164842 Remaining Time -0:53
Records
from the State’s Office of Campaign Finance show that DeMaria funneled a
large part of that “more than ninefold” of his opponent’s spending to
the law firm of Gerry D’Ambrosio during the dying days of the race.
Why? To tell him to pay the longevity money back and get re-elected? Of
course not. These two criminals conspired to salt away “campaign
expenses” to fund a defense to the inevitable Ethics investigation we
are now seeing…and the probable Federal probe to follow. What a
shameless grift cooked up by these two raviolis.
✕ Updated: 5:49 PM EDT Apr 29, 2026
Editorial Standards ⓘ Veronica Haynes Senior Digital Editor/Producer, WCVB.com EVERETT, Mass. —
The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission said an inquiry found reasonable cause to believe the former mayor of Everett took money he was not entitled to and tried to cover it up.
The commission charges in an April 29 court filing that Carlo DeMaria violated the state's conflict of interest law by receiving inflated longevity payments and concealing those payments.
Mealy-mouthed ex Mayor DeMaria Lost the Election, the fat moron...and like Trump it is lie after lie and never admission of guilt
The
findings prompted immediate condemnation of DeMaria and relief from
members of the Everett City Council who have long criticized the former
mayor. They also came weeks after DeMaria created a new legal defense fund earlier to finance his defense against an “ethics commission inquiry.”
The
commission said Wednesday it has launched an “adjudicatory proceeding”
against DeMaria. It said it could impose penalties up to $10,000 for
each violation of the state’s conflict of interest law, in addition to
seeking restitution payments.
In
a statement Wednesday, DeMaria cast the case as “nothing more than a
dispute over the interpretation of a poorly written local payment
ordinance that the Everett City Council itself enacted and funded
through public votes after public hearings.”
“After
nearly five years of political attacks, sensational media coverage, and
relentless rumormongering, this is all the Enforcement Office has found
cause to pursue,” DeMaria said in a statement sent by his
lawyer, Gerry D’Ambrosio. “The claim that the City Council was somehow
deceived is absurd and ignores the obvious political motivation for
these allegations.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/29/metro/everett-mayor-demaria-state-ethics-violation/
Guilty of stealing from the Everett tax payers!
Contact: Gerry Tuoti, Deputy Chief, Public Education & Communications Division
State Ethics Commission’s Enforcement Division Alleges Former Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria Violated Conflict of Interest Law
Commission found reasonable cause to believe DeMaria improperly received and concealed longevity payments
The State Ethics Commission’s Enforcement Division issued an Order to Show Cause today alleging that former Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria violated the conflict of interest law by improperly receiving longevity payments and concealing some of the payments. By filing the Order, the Enforcement Division initiated an adjudicatory proceeding against DeMaria.
The Order alleges that in or about 2016, DeMaria asked the City Council President to sponsor a new ordinance that would provide the mayor with longevity payments. The ordinance enacted by the City Council in October 2016 stated that the mayor would receive a $10,000 longevity payment for each completed full term as mayor, and that the mayor serving at the time of the ordinance’s passage would receive a one-time longevity payment of $10,000 for each previously completed term as mayor.
However, instead of only receiving the longevity pay to which the ordinance entitled him, DeMaria received annual longevity payments for each of his previous mayoral terms, the Order alleges. DeMaria was first sworn into office as Mayor in 2008, when the mayoral term was two years, remained in office after a 2011 city charter amendment extended the mayoral term to four years, and began his first four-year term in 2014. DeMaria received initial longevity payments of $30,000 in 2016 and $30,000 in 2017, the Order states.
According to the Order, at some point before the Fiscal Year 2019 city budget was passed, DeMaria instructed the city’s Chief Financial Officer to move his longevity payments from an Executive Office of the Mayor budget line item to a Human Resources Employee Buyback budget line item that was used to pay accrued sick and vacation payouts, not longevity payments. The Human Resources Employee Buyback line item identified neither payout recipients, including DeMaria as the recipient of longevity payments, nor the amount of DeMaria’s longevity payments, the Order states. In addition to the two $30,000 initial longevity payments received in 2016 and 2017, the Order identifies a total of $160,000 in longevity payments DeMaria allegedly received from 2018 to 2021, a substantial portion of which he was not entitled to receive, according to the Order.
DeMaria was not entitled to longevity pay in 2017, was entitled to only $10,000 in 2018, and was not entitled to any longevity payments in 2019-2021, according to the Order.
The conflict of interest prohibits municipal employees from soliciting or receiving anything of substantial value that is not authorized by statute or regulation, for or because of their official position. The Order alleges DeMaria violated this prohibition by receiving longevity payments annually, rather than upon his completion of each four-year mayoral term, and by continuing to receive annual longevity payments for previously completed terms after the one-time payment described in the longevity ordinance.
The Order also alleges that, by concealing his longevity payments in the Human Resources Employee Buyback budget line item, and thus denying the public a chance to challenge the amount or frequency of the longevity payments, DeMaria violated the conflict of interest law’s prohibition against public employees using or attempting to use their official position to obtain unwarranted privileges or benefits.
Pursuant to the Commission’s Enforcement Procedures, the Enforcement Division files an Order to Show Cause against a subject following the Commission’s finding of reasonable cause to believe the subject violated the conflict of interest law. Before filing the Order to Show Cause, the Enforcement Division gives the subject the opportunity to resolve the matter through a disposition agreement. The Commission will schedule a public hearing on the allegations against DeMaria within 90 days.
The Commission is authorized to impose a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation of the conflict of interest law and may also order restitution payments.
The Commission encourages public employees to contact the Commission’s Legal Division at 617-371-9500 for free advice if they have any questions regarding how the conflict of interest law may apply to them.
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