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Article: JUDGE WINS ONE DUE TO OVERSIGHT DAHER DRAWS FULL PAY, DESPITE SALARY LIMIT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 16, 1987
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A political drama that began with a deathbed promise and
developed into a bitter six-year tussle between one of the state's
most powerful politicians and a feisty judge has taken a new turn
due to a clerical error.
As a result, E. George Daher, the chief administrative
justice of the Boston Housing Court, has been drawing his full
salary for the past two years in apparent violation of the six-year
old state law that restricts his pay.
The Legislature reduced Daher's salary and eliminated funding
for his three-person administrative staff in 1981 after he refused
to hire the son of the late Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough, a member
of the Executive Council and political mentor to Senate ...