Monday, October 1, 2012
A New York woman was convicted in federal court on Friday for sending four threatening letters to several people, including Sen. Scott Brown, and Attorney General Martha Coakley.
A New York woman faces up to 10 years in jail for sending Sen. Scott Brown and several others threatening letters in the mail, according to the Boston divison of the FBI. Roberta Cicora, 57, St. Johnsville, N.Y., pleaded guilty in court Friday to mailing threatening communications to Brown and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley that included an unknown white powder. Cicora also sent a threatening letter to the Franklin County House of Correction in Greenfield, Mass. Cicora’s white powder letters caused the offices that received them to close down until HAZMAT teams responded and determined that the letters did not pose a lethal threat to the safety of the workers there. Cicora will be sentenced in court on Jan, 10. She faces …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Over the course of a year, the state has stepped up its efforts to fight the crime.
Massachusetts likes to think of itself as a progressive state, but it was only last year that it was among the worst in the nation in terms of cracking down on human trafficking. But today, thanks to the efforts of lawmakers and Attorney General Martha Coakley's office, the Bay State has gone far in tackling one of the most sinister crimes in the commonwealth. The Polaris Project, a national group that fights slavery, this year elevated Massachusetts from the group of 11 states doing the worst jobs at combating human trafficking to the tier of states with the best frameworks in place against it. In fact, more than half the states in the nation stepped up their fight against human trafficking in the past year. The Polaris Project reports …
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
"This is a country that is founded on the idea that civil protest, rightful protest, is something that we guarantee," Coakley said Tuesday. "I hope everyone in Washington will pay attention to this voice of frustration.”
Martha Coakley has been paying close attention to Occupy Boston, and although there have been over 100 arrests, the protests have appeared to be mostly peaceful - and rightful, she said Tuesday. "This is a country that is founded on the idea that civil protest, rightful protest, is something that we guarantee," Coakley said in a brief interview Tuesday at City Hall in Medford. "I hope everyone in Washington will pay attention to this voice of frustration.” Coakley, the state's top law enforcement official as Attorney General, said the protests have been "an expression of anger and frustration that seems to be properly channeled." The country has been "turned upside-down by this mortgage crisis," Coakley said, and her office is planning to …
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