Unions have paid Marty handsomely, as feds allege ‘payback’ in City Hall extortion trialBy Joe Battenfeld | joe.battenfeld@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2019 at 7:52 pm | UPDATED: July 23, 2019 at 7:52 pm
Mayor Martin Walsh — now spotlighted by feds at the center of a City Hall extortion trial — has been good to the unions and they’ve paid him back, showering him with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions throughout his political career.
Prosecutors in the extortion trial of two top Walsh aides have sought to portray the mayor as beholden to unions, saying that’s the reason the aides muscled the Boston Calling music festival into hiring union stage hands.
And there’s no question the mayor has been on the receiving end of union largess — both personally and politically.
Walsh, both as a state rep. and mayor, has raked in more than $300,000 from union political action committees, and much of that came during Walsh’s 2013 run for the top City Hall job. ...
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