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Wilkerson-Wamp connection; Pocasset's Pedophile priest; Bay Atomic Pipe plan OK

TODAY's quote;  "Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth! " - Henry David Thoreau

An intriguing loose thread between Wilkerson and the Tribe

According to the FBI, state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson once celebrated receiving a $1,000 bribe by hightailing it to Foxwoods. A pretty amusing detail — and one that jogged my memory.

Let's not forget, too, that the FBI is still investigating Marshall. It is time to find out what was discussed in Wilkerson's office that day.

Last year, not long after Glenn Marshall stepped down in disgrace as head of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal council, there was a meeting involving Wilkerson, D-Roxbury, that has never been explained. But it clearly had something to do with the tribe's fading hopes of building a mega-casino in Middleborough.

In a story broken by Peter Kenney at Cape Cod Today in September 2007, we learned that Amelia Bingham and her son, Steven Bingham, tribal members whom Marshall had ordered "shunned" for asking too many questions, met with Wilkerson in her office. Also present was Michael Morris, a top aide to Gov. Deval Patrick, and several advisers to the Binghams.

Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi later reported that Morris had not expected the Binghams to be present. That differed from Kenney's account, which claimed that Morris merely hadn't expected the Binghams to bring advisers with them.

Although the Binghams were fierce opponents of Marshall, they do not oppose the idea of building a tribal casino. Rather, they have criticized Marshall and his successor, Shawn Hendricks, for not cutting a lucrative enough deal for tribal members... MediaNation.
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Defrocked, suspended priests continue to live comfortable lives on Cape Cod

It's the house where several men say "Father T" molested them in the 1960s and '70s when they were boys and he was a priest

Defrocked priest Ernest Tourigney, 72, still lives in the Pocasset neighborhood of Bourne on Cape Cod. It's the house where several men say "Father T" molested them in the 1960s and '70s when they were boys and he was a priest at Immaculate Conception Church in Weymouth.

Jeffrey Scolamiero, 43, of Pembroke, is one of them. He settled a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Boston for $70,000 earlier this year. Tourigney was defrocked in 2006 after the church settled several other allegations against him, including those of two other boys from Immaculate Conception.

Since the church cut its ties with Tourigney when it defrocked him, no one is in charge of keeping track of him. Scolarmiero says he's taken on the task himself because he doesn't want Tourigney to get too comfortable... Patriot Ledger.
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Atomic board: Cape Cod Bay Pipe plan OK
Watch group: pipes and tanks that contain radioactively contaminated water at the Pilgrim Station Nuclear Power Plant inadequate

Lampert said Entergy’s decision to not do this raises questions in her mind about what is being released into Cape Cod Bay and into the air people breathe.

Thursday afternoon the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that an NRC licensing panel has ruled in favor of Entergy Nuclear Operations and dismissed the Pilgrim Watch citizen’s group’s contention that the aging management program for the buried pipes and tanks that contain radioactively contaminated water at the Pilgrim Station Nuclear Power Plant is inadequate.

Pilgrim Watch founder Mary “Pixie” Lampert is preparing an appeal of the decision by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), a panel of three judges independent of the NRC. An appeal must be filed within 15 days of the licensing board’s initial decision or the decision would become final by Dec. 9.

Lampert said the licensing board’s decision does not take into account the condition of the underground pipes and tanks because their condition is unknown at this time. She said it’s like buying a house without having an inspection done.

“I do not find it satisfactory,” she said. “Reading it, it was difficult to find their rationale.”

Entergy’s operating license for the Pilgrim plant expires June 8, 2012. The company filed an application with the NRC in January 2006 for renewal of the license for another 20 years. Pilgrim Watch challenged the renewal in May 2006 based in part on the contention that the aging management program is inadequate because the programs do not provide for monitoring wells... Duxbury Clipper.