I hope state Auditor Diana DiZoglio will be digging a lot deeper into Massport’s shady history of payoffs to their hack employees than this single $1.375-million “settlement” from 2022.

Taxpayers need to know about everything that’s gone down across state government. But there was one nearly-forgotten Massport sweetheart deal that came to mind at DiZoglio’s press conference Wednesday.

Remember disgraced former US attorney Rachael Rollins?

Before she was forced to resign one step ahead of a posse, she worked briefly at Massport in 2015.

Just long enough to snare a $175,000 severance payment, and an additional $45,000 to attend an eight-month program at Harvard Business School.

The kiss included $154,500 in “salary continuation payments,” $18,334 for “unused” vacation time and $2,000 in health benefits.

When she ran successfully for district attorney of Suffolk County in 2018, nobody knew anything about this sweetheart deal. The story came out as she was nominated for US attorney, a job she was confirmed for by the US Senate on a 51-50 vote, with the tie broken by another DEI stalwart, then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

The story of Rollins’ hush-hush deal was broken by Commonwealth Magazine in 2021:

“Under the eight-page severance agreement, Rollins waived all her rights to sue Massport for a laundry list of things, including for more money, race discrimination, and age discrimination.

“The agreement also says that Massport agrees that its senior executives and its board members ‘will not make any disparaging or derogatory statements in public or private regarding Ms. Rollins, her employment, or the termination of her employment with Massport.’”

Massport issued a vague statement at the time the story broke, saying “an agreement was reached with Rachael to become available as an advisor to the new leadership….”

An advisor. You know, kind of like the way Monica Tibbits-Nutt, the disgraced DEI secretary of transportation, was kept on the payroll for a few months last year after the $900-million Plazagate scandal blew up.

As an “advisor.”

Of course Rachael Rollins has been taken care of after her humiliating departure from the Justice Department. She was handed a consolation job at Roxbury Community College for $109,852 a year. Any port in a storm…

This kind of stuff is going on, obviously, across the entire hackerama.

At her press conference, DiZoglio mentioned 263 settlement agreements across 21 state agencies, totaling roughly $6.8 million handed out in public funds.

The state’s third-rate colleges, er universities, accounted for a lot of the stonewalling. Are you surprised? These are the same schools where the presidents are making hundreds of thousands a year, and at the end, before their six-figure pensions kick in, they collect another few hundred grand for all that “unused” vacation time.

Wink wink nudge nudge.

The settlements are just a variation on all the other rackets the hacks have going on.

What began as an attempt by DiZoglio to find out about sexual harassment by state politicians is obviously morphing into a much larger scandal. When LaMar Cook is the template for state hiring policies, you’re going to end up with problem employees, which is why DiZoglio brought up his name Wednesday.

So rather than have a bunch of embarrassing depositions whenever a LaMar Cook gets lugged, they just shovel a bunch of money at them. And I’m sure that if DiZoglio ever gets full disclosure – doubtful, to be sure – we’ll find out that a lot of these hacks have been moving from one state agency to another, pulling the same settlement scam again and again.

Couldn’t get away with it in the Dreaded Private Sector, where managers are required to assume at least some responsibility for their misdeeds. But Massachusetts is a one-party state, corrupt top to bottom. And everyone’s in the satchel, including regime-controlled media.

Look at yesterday’s headlines about Gov. Maura Healey providing $180 million in “relief” for hard-pressed Massachusetts utility ratepayers.

How far down did the fluffers mention that this alleged “relief” is merely a deferral of the utilities’ bills until later in the year?

In 2024, 72% of Massachusetts voters said they wanted an audit of the Legislature’s books. The Legislature gave them the middle finger. The judiciary, whose pay is controlled by the Legislature, did the same.

It’s the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.

I hope DiZoglio also takes a good look at the state treasurer’s office, all the way back to Tim Cahill’s tenure.

Here’s the lead of an Associated Press story from 2005 about some severance agreements in the Treasurer’s office:

“State Treasurer Timothy Cahill has entered into severance and confidentiality agreements with seven former employees – including two women who were his most recent communications directors –since taking office in 2003.”

Of the two women, the wire service added:

“Both left without any formal notice to the press corps, with whom they dealt regularly, and without any acknowledgment from the office.”

Odd, isn’t it, how some stories seem to get so much more attention than others? Usually depending upon party affiliation.

Of course, media fluffers tend to have the same kind of proclivities the hack politicians do. Remember when the Globe was convulsed with stories about sexual harassment, and the fact that some of the male editors allegedly maintained a list of certain young female interns, rating them on a “bleepability” scale?

Did any of those alleged victims get settlements, or did they just go into different lines of work?

We’d all like the answers to these questions, but don’t hold your breath. We’ll find out about these secret payoffs about the same time Maura Healey delivers some real relief to the utility ratepayers of Massachusetts.

Which is to say, never.

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