Date: January
13, 2014
To: Boston
Fire Dept, Personnel Deputy John Coppney & Acting Fire Commissioner
From : Albert
Arroyo ( Firefighter/Fire Prevention )
Subject : My
Status after being exonerated in Federal Court?
Dear Sirs: The
Department received my Demand Letter and requests for information several
months ago but I have yet to receive a response.
I can only assume this
is the usual tactic of the (now prior administration ) is to just ignore
it , knowing from the experiences of many others after so many abuses of
individuals’ rights (especially minorities) continue without challenge
because of the nakedly incestuous relationship City Hall has with
the usual agencies that one normally would have to go for redress:
Specifically Civil
Service, Labor Relations, MCAD and often even Courts often aid and encourage
this sort of lawlessness.
But the facts are:
I was exonerated in
a Court of Law (a Federal Court of Law) because all of the allegations
were false , and were not a result of any action on my behalf or any
Investigation. One of the exhibits even proved that the City knew I was weight
training because it helped my back, and that was all part of a doctor’s
recommendation.
It was
deliberately (with the knowledge and consent and instruction from City
Hall ) contrived primarily to divert attention from the FBI investigation of
City Hall & the Dept. This
occurred because they needed to blame someone after all the notoriety and to
bring it to a conclusion. As usual in Boston they picked a non-legacy minority
when everyone around knows the real story is how the legacy employees abuse the
pension system when they are “King for a Day.”
Another fact is that
I was never a subject of the FBI Investigation, and another fact is that were
no minorities involved in the Pension/Disability Fraud (It was all
Union “Good Guy’s” Chiefs , and the politically-connected.)
I was sacrificed by
the same People who attempted do the same to Firefighter Richard Garcia from
Ladder 21, which was during the active investigation and the FBI told the
Administration they were not interested and he was not involved in the
investigation.
I can imagine the
disappointment and dismay (and a little worry) at City Hall when I was declared
innocent.
But this did not
stop them and after a week of silence City Hall fed a story to the press
(especially the Boston Herald who has scrubbed the story from the
archives) that I was fighting to be reinstated and had a pending
Arbitration hearing.
This was totally
false and wasn't possible as a Labor Law issue or a grievance process
through the Union , because I never had any union help to proceed to
arbitration (you can see from the Text messages from the Union
President the kind of help I got, the same help you get if you are not
a “Good Guy” or a minority). Those pictures are up on our blog to show you
the kind of nasty responses I got from the “Union.”
But most important there was NO REASON TO DO ANY OF
THIS TO ME. I was to be made whole , and means returned as I was before.
My father DIED before I could clear my name.
The real Criminals that perpetrated the “Fraud” on
the Feds were Michael Doherty , Michael Hamrock, District Chief Lucas, Ian
McKenzie , Edmund Street (who told the truth and was given immunity) ,
Reynold Shepard and the people at the Retirement Board who made the Documents
with my name on them, also Karen Glasgow (the same that lied in federal Court
but wasn't charged because they wanted it to end quietly) who was behind
the scenes assuring them they could get away with it.
How it began ,
Reynald Shepard pleaded with me to do the competition saying that I owed him
(the infamous video) he was also the go-between for personnel
chief Michael Doherty to contact me so there would be no phone record from
the City,Doherty would order me to headquarters , he ordered me to meet with
the Dept, doctor Michael Hamrock who told me “you’re all done, you have to
put in your Papers” which meant I was being involuntarily retired.
I had no time to
contemplate it never mind challenge it because of the well-known
consequences from personnel and Hamrock (again especially being a
minority) and was immediately told to go outside with Edmund Street and
get in the Car waiting outside Headquarters.
As for the Union not
only failed to represent me, and they not just willfully , but actively worked
against me and continued too. This past January I get a vague message
from Union president Richard Paris (who likes to text?) telling me I had
only a couple of days to meet with the Union to prepare for “Arbitration”
???
So I hired a Lawyer
to go as a witness because it was obviously a ruse to get me there, likely
because City Hall wanted to know what I was doing worrying about the potential
action I could take as was the Union because of their participation hoping
I was ignorant of the circumstances.
So I arrive with the
lawyer and Richard Paris, Edward Paris, Paul Keeley (and the Lawyer Wanger
who's retainer I helped pay for two decades) were obviously disappointed and
angry because of my witness.
So they were trying
to be my buddies and persuade me to apply for retirement!
Yet couldn't tell me
what my actual status was, but they wanted me to retire?
So I can imagine if
I did as they hoped it would be fed to the Press that here I was trying to get
something I didn’t deserved and I would be made out as a pathological fraud
after the journalistic lynching where the public was kept in the dark with
the facts.
I just want my job
back. Like the movie says I am employable and I am sick of the department
forcing non-legacy employees into rip-off pension plans. I prevailed in my
trial and according to the Federal Defense said I should have never been put in
such jeopardy.
Yours in Christ,
______________________
Albert Arroyo
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