Andrea F Nuciforo Jr aka Luciforo!: Luciforo's double dipping illegal conflicts of interest! MONEY! POWER! LOBBYISTS! BIG BANKS! INSURANCE COMPANIES!

- ----- www.bermananddowell.com http://bermananddowell.com/attorneys.jsp Berman & Dowell 210 Commercial Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109-1305 Telephone: 617-723-9911 Facsimile: 617-723-6688 Joseph S. Berman Elizabeth S. Bostwick John S. Day Rodney S. Dowell -AND- ANDREA F. NUCIFORO, JR. Of Counsel, Email: anuciforo@bermandowell.com Practice Areas: Professional Liability Defense; Commercial Litigation; Banking Law; Insurance Coverage; Insurance Defense. Lawyer for Berman & Dowell (a Law Practice industry) from January 1999 — September 2006 (7 years 9 months). "Luciforo" served "Of Counsel" at this Boston-based litigation practice. Source: www.linkedin.com/pub/andrea-f-nuciforo-jr/6/1b/982 Biography: Law Clerk to Chief Judge Frank H. Freedman, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1989-1991. Member, 1997— and Chairman, Committee on Banks and Banking, Massachusetts State Senate, Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin District. ----- www.nuciforo.com --2005-- Welcome to My Online Office Senate President Robert E. Travaglini recently appointed me to serve as chairman of the newly-formed Committee on Financial Services. The committee will have jurisdiction relating to banks, credit unions, insurance companies, insurance agents, state securities laws, and a variety of other matters. This assignment, in addition to my membership on the Elder Affairs, Higher Education, Consumer Protection, and Election Laws Committees gives me an extraordinary opportunity to serve the citizens of the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin District. The Financial Services committee will consider changes to Massachusetts laws relating to automobile insurance, homeowners insurance, mortgage lending, and other matters that have a direct impact on consumers across the Commonwealth. I encourage you to visit Nuciforo.com often, as the site will be updated regularly to keep you informed about legislative activities, and upcoming events in western Massachusetts and the State House. Thank you for the privilege of representing you in the Massachusetts Senate. As always, please feel free to contact me should you need my help. Sincerely, Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr. State Senator ----- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ A Past Berkshire Eagle NEWS ARTICLE: "Insurers swell senator's war chest: Nuciforo able to raise $137,000 in donations" (By Erik Arvidson, Eagle Boston Bureau, The Berkshire Eagle, Saturday, January 21, 2006): "Nuciforo (Luciforo's) top donor was the Webster-based Commerce Insurance Co., the state's largest auto insurer, which had 18 executives or employees donate a total of $9,000. All of them donated the maximum $500 allowed to an individual under the state's campaign finance laws. / Commerce has lobbied the Legislature heavily to retain the current closely regulated system, opposing a plan by Romney to provide drivers with more choice and to introduce more competition." » Nuciforo's (Luciforo's) top five donors These are the top five companies that had employees contributing to state Sen. Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr.'s campaign in 2005: 1. Commerce Insurance Co. — $9,000 2. Liberty Mutual — $6,800 3. Nation One Mortgage — $5,350 4. Arbella Insurance Group — $2,400 5. Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas LLP — $1,775] $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

----- - The OCPF Searchable Campaign Finance Database & Electronic Filing System - www.efs.cpf.state.ma.us/PrintFullReport.aspx?reportId=87291 - www.efs.cpf.state.ma.us/PrintFullReport.aspx?reportId=88320 - Luciforo: The evil man with a +$120,000 campaign war chest (11/30/2008). - ----- The Berkshire Eagle In the State Thursday, January 27, 2005 - "Nuciforo named leader of new finance panel" BOSTON -- State Sen. Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr., D-Pittsfield, was named Senate chairman of the newly created Financial Services Committee yesterday by Senate President Robert E. Travaglini. Nuciforo was formerly the chairman of the Banks and Banking Committee, which has been consolidated with the Insurance Commit-tee to form a new joint House-Senate panel that will examine all aspects of the financial services industry. House and Senate leaders said the new committee was created to keep pace with the changing face of finance and to eliminate overlap. ----- The Berkshire Eagle "Nuciforo to head panel overseeing auto insurance" By Erik Arvidson, Berkshire Eagle Boston Bureau Saturday, January 29, 2005 BOSTON -- With his promotion to Senate chairman of the Financial Services Committee, state Sen. Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr., D-Pittsfield, has moved front and center in the debate over the high cost of auto insurance in Massachusetts. In addition to a $7,500 pay raise -- bringing his annual pay to about $70,000 -- Nuciforo's statewide profile will likely rise as a result of chairing the panel that will be a key voice in the debate over how to make auto insurance rates more affordable. Nuciforo said he would take a balanced approach to considering matters relating to auto and homeowners insurance, which will be the two biggest areas of concern he will inherit as a result of the committee restructuring. "It's a very broad jurisdiction this committee will have," Nuciforo said. "I come with an open mind to insurance issues. With auto insurance and homeowners insurance, consumers often complain about the limits of coverage. Auto insurance consumers are unhappy with the rate-setting structure. There are a lot of thorny issues to deal with this year." There are just 19 auto insurers operating in Massachusetts today, compared to 53 in 1990. Nuciforo would not say whether he agreed with Gov. Mitt Romney's comments that the current auto insurance system is riddled with fraud and rewards bad drivers. "I will be meeting with all of the interested parties and will conduct hearings. We'll make the best decisions we can," Nuciforo said. "This will be a good opportunityfor consumeradvocates and representatives of the industry to bring their concerns to the open." The Financial Services Committee was created as a result of the merger of Nuciforo's old Banks and Banking Committee, and the Insurance Committee. Nuciforo and his House co-chair counterpart -- who has yet to be named -- will also likely be the subject of intense lobbying and cash donations from the insurance industry. According to the secretary of state's lobbyist division, the auto, home, and life insurance industries spent a total of $1.46 million in 2004 on lobbyist salaries and contributions to elected officials. Combined with the reported expenditures of the banking, lending and investment industries, Nuciforo's Financial Services Committee oversees issues that were the subject of $2.6 million in lobbying efforts last year. The former Senate chairman of the Insurance Committee, Guy W. Glodis of Worcester, received $14,425 in lobbyist donations in just six months in 2003, according to the Metrowest Daily News. Nuciforo has served as chairman of the Banks and Banking Committee since 1999. Prior to that, he was Senate chairman of the Election Laws Committee. Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi agreed to restructure the legislative committees to modernize them and make them more efficient. ----- 8/4/2006 I must register my DISSENT against Massachusetts Senate President Bob Travaglini's praise for the corrupt, special interest and abusive State Senator Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr.! The news article below points out that Nuciforo is exiting the Massachusetts Senate after 10 years of public service. The following is a synopsis of the truth about Nuciforo's real public record: 1 - Nuciforo tried to JAIL me in the Spring of 1998 for speaking out against the state government's proposal to abolish Berkshire County Government. After Nuciforo threatened me two times the previous year, he made false reports to the Pittsfield Police Department that I was threatening him. Nuciforo's real goal was to have me put in Berkshire Sheriff Carmen Massimiano's Jail where I would have been tortured and abused by Sheriff Massimiano's jailer staff. Moreover, during the same time period, Nuciforo launched a Kafkaesque "Ethics" hearing against my dad for speaking out on the state's proposed abolition and takeover of Berkshire County Government. Nuciforo's real goal was to have my dad fired from his Courthouse job and forcing him to resign his elected post as a Berkshire County Commissioner. 2 - Speaking of Conflicts of Interests and "Ethics" hearings, Nuciforo received very large amounts of campaign contributions from the Boston area financial institutions in order to block "Auto Insurance Reform." Moreover, as Chair of the Massachusetts Senate Financial Services Committee, Nuciforo also served as a private Attorney for a Boston Law Firm named "Berman & Dowell" as a Corporate Lawyer for the Boston Area big banks and insurance companies. Ergo, while Nuciforo was setting public policies for Boston's big financials, he was doing their private bidding by way of the "Berman & Dowell" law firm, which he never disclosed on his Ethics forms under the pains and penalties of perjury, fines and jail. 3 - Nuciforo created a monopoly for Berkshire Health Systems by excluding others in the Berkshires from having access to life-saving medical equipment by a secret midnight rider in the FY2002 "Thanksgiving Budget" in the Fall of 2001. There was no debates, deliberations or hearings on the matter. Without doctors having access to this life-saving medical equipment, Nuciforo placed at risk the medical needs of countless number of local medical patients throughout Berkshire County! 4 - During three straight years of state budget cuts to cities and towns, Nuciforo voted himself and his legislative cronies 3 straight pay raises! 5- In this year's Registrar of Deeds race, there were initially two WOMEN running for the democratically elected office. Nuciforo strong-armed both WOMEN candidates out of the race to be the sole annointed politician to take this office. Talk about slighting diversity and democracy at the same time! 6- In the final vote, Nuciforo was the only State Senator to oppose the state's all felon DNA Database to catch violent criminals. Amazingly and bizarrely enough, he did so in the name of "civil liberties." This was the same Nuciforo that tried to Jail me and fire my dad from his job in Spring of 1998 for exercising our Constitutionally protected right to exercise our Civil Liberties! By opposing the all felon DNA database, Nuciforo was opposing including the following felonies to the list: Drugging with the Intent to Rape, Assault and Battery on a Child to cause bodily injury, all gun felonies, and all drug felonies! www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/05/andrea-nuciforo-massachusetts-dna.html 7- Nuciforo and the state Legislature have illegally used the State Constitution to silence the rights of the people to decide the complex issues of marriage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By a vote of 4-3, the Supreme Judicial Court took judicial activism to a whole new level by saying the state constitution allows same sex couples to marry. Since then the people have been silenced on the matter due to the Legislature's illegal use of the State Constitution! Nuciforo does not believe in letting the people be heard on Constitutional matters.

I, Jonathan Melle, am a supporter of same sex marriages. 8- Speaking of letting the People be heard, in the Fall of 1998, 2-out-of-3 voters in Nuciforo's Berkshire Legislative District endorsed Clean Elections. Nuciforo overruled the will of the people he supposedly represents by strongly opposing campaign finance reform. Moreover, Nuciforo for years has received a great majority portion of his campaign donation from well outside of his Berkshire Legislative District! 9- Nuciforo and his legislative cronies have cut state funding to local governments to the bone, bankrupted the City of Springfield by these cuts, and attacked any inefficiencies in local governments with loud outcry's! YET, Nuciforo and his fellow Boston Pols have completely ignored the "Big Dig"! Boston's Big Dig is the most expensive, wasteful and life-threatening public works project in the history of the great United States of America. While Nuciforo has supported drastic cuts to cities and town, pay raises for himself, and corrupt campaign contributions from Boston area big banks and insurance companies, he has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to reform the "Big Dig."

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10- Nuciforo's real purpose in public office was to serve the powerful Boston Pols, wealth financial institutions in and around Boston, and the Pittsfield Political Machine. Nuciforo voted Berkshire County Sheriff a substantial pay raise because Carmen Massimiano runs the incestuous Pittsfield Political Machine! For doing Nuciforo's dirty work for nearly a decade, Nuciforo voted Berkshire County Sheriff Carmen C. Massimiano, Jr. a $21,710 pay raise thereby taking the corrupt Sheriff's pay to $123,209 a year. While Nuciforo voted his cronie a 21 percent pay raise, he has done little to serve the people he supposedly represents for nearly a decade. www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/11/carmen-c-massimiano-jr.html

www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/06/carmen-massimiano-is-breaking-state.html The list goes on and on against Nuciforo's corruption, conflicts of interest, and abuses of power! I hope I have provided you all with a truthful synopsis of Nuciforo's poor and deficient public record as one of Berkshire County's WORST politicians ever! Sincerely & In Truth, Jonathan A. Melle - "Sen. Nuciforo exits after his final vote" By Erik Arvidson, Berkshire Eagle Boston Bureau, The Berkshire Eagle, Thursday, August 3, 2006 BOSTON — His Senate term doesn't end until next January, but state Sen. Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr. may have taken his final roll-call vote when the Senate enacted a bill allowing a land conveyance in Winthrop at close to midnight Monday. The 42-year-old Pittsfield Democrat, who is ending a 10-year legislative career to run for the office of Central Berkshire Register of Deeds, is one of two leaving the Senate — the other being Senate Minority Leader Brian P. Lees, R-East Longmeadow. On Monday, the Legislature recessed from meeting in formal sessions until next January, and most lawmakers will spend little time at the Statehouse as many run for re-election. Nuciforo didn't make a lengthy farewell speech, which he said he's saving for a Senate session in November after the election, but told his Senate colleagues it had been a "tremendous pleasure" serving with them. Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, D-East Boston, said that Lees and Nuciforo "represent all that's good about the institution." It's possible that the Senate could meet again in an rare formal session between now and the end of the year. Gov. Mitt Romney said Tuesday that it was likely he'd have to call the House and Senate back in for a formal session to approve a capital facilities bond bill that was not enacted and which was to pay for public works projects and information technology improvements in state government. House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi rejected that request yesterday. Also, state lawmakers are scheduled to meet in a Constitutional Convention Nov. 9 to consider, among many proposals, one which would define marriage as solely for heterosexual couples. However, even some proponents acknowledge that a meeting may never be called. Nuciforo, who served as Senate chairman of the Financial Services Committee, was pleased that he helped stop a proposed bill to scrap the state's current system in which the commissioner of insurance sets auto insurance rates. "In my judgment, that bill would have enriched huge national insurance companies at the expense of the consumer. I was happy to see it didn't pass," Nuciforo said. Nuciforo said he wanted to see the bill focus on fighting fraud, reducing bodily injury claims and fairly distribute losses between insurers, but he and other legislators weren't able to come to a consensus. Still, Nuciforo said the 2005-06 legislative session saw "substantial victories for the city of Pittsfield and Berkshire County," including state funds for a downtown Pittsfield cinema center and money for streetscape improvements, along with support for local cultural venues. "I think we as the Berkshire delegation really raised the profile of the cultural community here in Berkshire County," Nuciforo said. Like many of his colleagues, Nuciforo was disappointed that a bill increasing funding for public higher education by $400 million over the next seven years was not enacted. - Erik Arvidson can be reached at earvidson@lowellsun.com. - -- WHERE IS Robert E. Travaglini NOW? Answer: Bob "Trav" is now a LOBBYIST! "...[F]ormer Senate president Robert E. Travaglini [is] significantly building up his lobbying practice. Travaglini, who left the State House in March 2007, was the fourth-highest-paid lobbyist, earning $209,000 in the first half of the year, according to the reports." "Travaglini picked up...Cambridge Health Alliance. His other clients include the real estate firm Flatley Co., the Massachusetts Hospital Association, and Suffolk Construction Co. Travaglini’s clients paid his firm $277,354 in the first half of year, nearly as much as he collected in all 2008. He has been permitted to lobby the Legislature only since March 2008, when a statutory one-year lobbying ban for former legislators expired." SOURCE: "Massachusetts lobbyists on pace to have a record year: Bring in $38m in 1st half of 2009" (By Andrea Estes, Boston Globe Staff, July 18, 2009) ----- -

"MELLE VINDICATED" www.aboutamherst.blogspot.com/2007/01/melle-vindicated.html

"Classic Jonathan Melle" - (Only the Title and caption are by Mary E. Carey) "Fellow Pittsfield native Jonathan Melle observes Massachusetts politics from the Live Free or Die state. Reprinting his views here (see below) is not an edorsement." The following essay, below, is written by me (Jonathan Melle) - 9/10/2007 What do John Olver and Jon Melle have in common? The answer to the above question is...ANDREA F. NUCIFORO, Junior, (aka Luciforo)! To explain, John Olver is the long-standing sitting United States Representative for most of Western Massachusetts. Unlike the incumbent Congressman from Amherst, Massachusetts(John Olver), Nuciforo, of Pittsfield/Boston, is a minion of the "John Forbes Kerry, Martin Meehan, Barney Frank...special interest political machine" ran by the large financial institutions in and around Boston. The Corporate Elite in Boston wants Nuciforo elected to Congress, thereby ousting Olver, so that he will do their bidding on Capitol Hill. To illustrate, when John Forbes Kerry ran for the presidency several years ago (in 2004), the Corporate Elite in Boston put on a fundraiser for the wealthy candidate in Nantucket (Spring, 2004). The event, which was hosted by John Kerry, was also co-hosted by Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr., who wore a matching tuxedo as he stood next to the junior Massachusetts Senator greeting the wealthy corporate executives and lobbyist who raised more campaign money for Kerry than the incumbent Bush was able to raise from his Corporate Elite donors in 2004. To further illustrate, go to the following web-site: http://www.bermananddowell.com/jsp2196567.jsp There you will find that Nuciforo really only serves the Corporate Elite in Boston as a private Corporate Attorney for Boston's big banks and insurance companies. Furthermore, please review the Boston Globe's 1/16/2007 news article, pasted below, which explains that: $$$$$$$$$$$$ "Nuciforo , the former Senate chairman of the Financial Services Committee...collected $11,000 in political donations from Commerce executives in [2006],...Nuciforo has focused his private law practice on insurance issues during the time he chaired the committee. He is listed as "of counsel" to Berman & Dowell, a Boston law firm that cites insurance defense as one of its three practice groups. He joined the firm the year he became committee chairman. Nuciforo's practice area is listed "insurance coverage" and "insurance defense , " according to the firm's website. That legal work entails defense work for insurance companies against claimants. ...Nuciforo, who made $72,000 a year as a state senator, listed receiving $15,000 in income from the law firm in 2005, according to his latest financial statements filed with the State Ethics Committee. ... $$$$$$$$$$$$ In 2008, Nuciforo will be able to run for U.S. Congress against John Olver and keep his "sinecure" in Pittsfield where he makes over $80,000 per year as the Central Berkshire Registrar of Deeds with a term of being up for "election" every 6 years. Nuciforo was "elected" to this "sinecure" in 2006 and he will not be up for "election" again until 2012. That gives Nuciforo the best of all Worlds! On the one hand, Nuciforo will raise more campaign money than John Olver because of his affiliations with the Corporate Elite in Boston, and on the other hand, he will have the security of his "sinecure" in Pittsfield. The only advantage that John Olver has against Nuciforo will be his long-standing incumbency. BUT, John Olver has one more ace up his sleave, although he may not know it, and that will be the assistance of Jonathan Melle (me) in defeating Nuciforo in his run for Congress by exposing the FRAUD Nuciforo really is! NOW, here is the difficult part. Jonathan Melle (me) comes from a "have-not" background. My parents rely on public pensions for their financial security. Around this time in (the Autumn) 1997, my dad was quoted in The North Adams Transcript as criticizing the commonwealth for not paying the full amount to the Berkshire County Government for the Courthouse rent. By the Spring of 1998, Nuciforo filed a Massachusetts State Ethics Commission report against my Dad to get him fired from his then state job as a probation officer and force his resignation from my dad's elected position as a Berkshire County Commissioner. Please note that during the same time period in the Spring of 1998, Nuciforo set up secretive plans with the Pittsfield Police Department to have me arrested because Nuciforo alleged that I was a threat to him after Nuciforo threatened me twice the year prior. Please note that if Nuciforo got his way, my dad would have lost both of his jobs and his son (me) would have gone to jail. Had Nuciforo gotten my dad is trouble, my dad would not be collecting a state pension today. My family would be very poor instead of middle class. What is the point? By Cliff Nilan calling my dad, Denis Guyer sending my mom anonymous letters with my emails enclosed, and the like, the point is that if I help John Olver next year win re-election by providing the Congressman with documents of Nuciforo's deficient and corrupt public record, the Pittsfield Political Machine will strike at my family again -- 10 years later. The Pols will try to take away one or both of my parent's public pensions to spite me for my long-term and continued stand against Nuciforo. My parents will blame me instead of the Pols for their plight, and dirty politics will win the day. Because the absurdly trivial Pittsfield Political Machine has their targets on Congressman John Olver to put Nuciforo in political office, my family will be a casualty of war. I will be made to be the bad guy, and Nuciforo will shine like a statue and smell like a rose. What John Olver and Jon Melle have in common is Nuciforo's dirty politics. I hope that John Olver realizes what is coming and will protect more than his own interests--i.e., guard at least my parents in their coming times of hardships. I don't care what happens to me in all of this. Bash me around, spit on my face, slander my name all over the place. I will still be there, standing tall, helping my parents and John Olver during their difficult times of need. I have been through Nuciforo's dirty politics ten years ago, and I am ready and willing to face him in Round #2! In closing and on a human level, my mom is suffering as a cancer survivor. I know that politics is usually banal: Abortion, Healthcare Coverage, Homelessness, etc. BUT, in this case, have a heart for my mother's illness. The odds are against her. She may not survive. Do what you want to me, but please don't harass my mother anymore. If you "Pittsfield Good Old Boys" want to play hardball with me, I will beat you at your pathetic game each and every time around. If you want to play hardball with my mother while she is vulnerable and suffering, then you will meet the strongest of my continual dissents. You don't like me, and I don't like you, and that is the banal reality, but please, please, please have a heart and stop targetting my mother. I WILL ALWAYS SPEAK MY GOOD CONSCIENCE FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE! In Dissent, Jonathan A. 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- Denis E Guyer married multi-millionaire Allison Crane, who is the heiress of "Crane & Co." John Forbes Kerry is the wealthiest Member of US Congress. US Senator John Kerry was born with a multi-million dollar trust fund that dates back to his maternal ancestor Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop. He married multi-millionaire Theresa Heinz, who is the heiress of the "Heinz Ketchup" fortune. - www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/denis-e-guyer-political-insider-gold.html -

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- Nonnie S. Burnes (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff/File 2007) - "State insurance chief heads to Northeastern: Nonnie Burnes led effort to deregulate auto coverage in ’07" By Todd Wallack, Boston Globe Staff, September 10, 2009 Nonnie S. Burnes, the state insurance commissioner who spearheaded the move to give auto insurance companies more freedom to set rates and increase competition in Massachusetts, is moving on next week after a little more than two years. Burnes, who has led the Division of Insurance since February 2007, will become a senior fellow at Northeastern University, where she earned her law degree in 1978 and serves as a trustee. Governor Deval Patrick, who appointed Burnes, praised the 67-year-old former judge as a great friend and commissioner. Patrick also credited her with bringing down auto insurance rates and giving drivers more choices. Since Burnes lifted many of the restrictions on how auto insurance is sold, 11 companies have entered the Massachusetts market or plan to start doing business here, including Allstate Insurance Co., Progressive Insurance, and Geico, and many drivers report paying lower auto insurance premiums. Before the introduction of so-called managed competition, rates were largely set by the state and there was little variation in prices between companies. Burnes “brought fresh insight and real courage to one of the central successes of this administration - the introduction of balanced, consumer-oriented competition to our auto insurance market,’’ Patrick said in a statement. In an interview, Burnes said she decided to resign, because she was excited about the opportunity at Northeastern and thought the changes she made in auto insurance were firmly in place. “This was a good time for me to take this opportunity,’’ Burnes said. “Managed competition has been great for the consumers of Masachusetts, and that will go forward.’’ James Harrington, who represents 21 insurers as head of the Massachusetts Insurance Federation Inc. of Boston, said he was sorry to see her step down. “She did a fabulous job trying to improve the market to the benefit of consumers,’’ Harrington said. “We wish her all the best, but we are somewhat disappointed by her departure.’’ But Burnes has also faced criticism. She was swamped with complaints after announcing plans to dismantle state appeals boards that allow consumers to challenge accident surcharges on their insurance premiums. Such surcharges - levied when a driver is found more than 50 percent responsible for an accident - can costs hundreds of dollars annually. Burnes eventually reversed her decision after lawmakers threatened to intervene. In addition, some longtime auto insurers in the state, such as Arbella Mutual Insurance, said the changed insurance rules favored new entrants to the market by temporarily exempting them from covering high-risk motorists. And consumer watchdog groups worried how the changes would affect low-income and minority drivers. Arbella declined comment. In a statement, Northeastern said Burnes would teach a course on regulatory reform after she starts Oct. 1. “One of our signatures at Northeastern is integrating classroom education with the world around us,’’ said school president Joseph E. Aoun. “In this spirit, we are thrilled to have someone with Nonnie’s professional accomplishments bring her knowledge and expertise to our students.’’ In addition to her auto insurance responsibilities, Burnes was also charged with helping to oversee health insurers. She is the second member of the Connector Authority - the 10-person board charged with implementing the state’s landmark universal health care insurance law - to announce plans to step down in as many months. In August, Tom Dehner, the state’s Medicaid director, said he would resign from the Connector Authority this month. Separately, Burnes has also tried to rein in coastal home insurance rates, which skyrocketed after insurance companies adjusted their models for forecasting the possibility of a major hurricane pounding Cape Cod. Burnes and lawmakers have been considering new rules to help control rate increases. Prior to becoming insurance commissioner, Burnes served as a Superior Court Justice for a decade, appointed by Governor William F. Weld in 1996. She also worked as an attorney for the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow and served as a commissioner on the State Ethics Commission. She attended Wellesley College before earning her law degree. As commissioner, Burnes earned about $127,000 last year. She declined to say how much she will earn at Northeastern. - Todd Wallack can be reached at twallack@globe.com. - NOTE: Nonnie Burnes was picked for Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner in January of 2007 over "Luciforo". Nuciforo received bad press in The Boston Globe for wanting the post shortly after taking his sinecure at the Pittsfield Middle Berkshire Registry of Deeds. The Globe explained "Luciforo's" illegal conflicts of interest with the insurance industry as an ex-State Senator. - ----- -

- Joseph G. Murphy - "Governor Deval Patrick taps new Massachusetts insurance commissioner" Boston.com - AP - February 8, 2010 BOSTON --Gov. Deval Patrick has named Joseph Murphy the state's new Commissioner of Division of Insurance. Murphy has been serving as acting commissioner since last September, following the departure of former Commissioner Nonnie Burnes. Patrick said Murphy will have plenty on his plate including overseeing the state's ongoing managed competition for auto insurance. The governor said the new system has attracted 11 new companies to the state and lowered costs for good drivers. Murphy has also been investigating the possibility of creating group purchasing cooperatives to help bring down the cost of health care premiums. Murphy is scheduled to deliver a report on the proposal with recommendations to Patrick by the end of the month. - www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/02/08/gov_patrick_taps_new_mass_insurance_commissioner/?comments=all - -----

October 21, 2020

Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior is spreading his "dead skunk odor" of marijuana around Pittsfield's working class neighborhoods from his Dalton Avenue marijuana growing operations. Local Pittsfield residents have written letters to the editor of "The Dirty Bird" (Berkshire Eagle) for over a year that Nuciforo's Berkshire Roots pot business is consistently producing a strong smell that affects the people who live near there.

They don't call him "Luciforo" for nothing! Nuciforo's political family dominated Pittsfield politics for generations. Nuciforo's late-father was a Pittsfield State Senator and a Probate Court Judge. Nuciforo's late-aunt was Pittsfield's first woman mayor and a career professor at Berkshire Community College. Nuciforo's uncle was a Pittsfield State Representative. Nuciforo and his Wojtkowski side of his family are still very involved and invested in Pittsfield politics.

Nuciforo used his political connections from his decade as a Pittsfield State Senator to Boston's Statehouse to start his marijuana empire after he became a fringe politician for trying to oust Congressman John W. Olver and then Congressman Richard E. Neal. The Boston Globe and other newspapers wrote that Nuciforo used his political connections and deep pockets in Boston to open his Berkshire Roots marijuana dispensary in East Boston.

Nuciforo's political career is the textbook case for corruption. Nuciforo had to step down from the Massachusetts State Senate in 2006 because he was in bed with Boston's big banks and insurance companies. Nuciforo illegally served as both Chairman of the State Senate Finance Committee and a Corporate Attorney for the law firm named Berman and Dowell in Boston. The Boston Globe said he was an illegal double dipper from 1999 - 2006. The Boston Globe reported in early-2007 that Nuciforo lobbied the then newly elected Governor Deval Patrick to name him Commissioner of Insurance. This was after Nuciforo strong-armed two women candidates out of the 2006 state government so-called "election" for Pittsfield Registrar of Deeds.

My personal experience with "Luciforo" started when I first met him in the Spring of 1996 when I was 20 years old when he first ran for Berkshire-based State Senator and my dad ran for Berkshire County Commissioner back in the days when there were still county governments in Western Massachusetts. Ever since I first met "Luciforo", he had people associated with his mean-spirited "Nuciforo network" conspiratorially bully and threaten me without "Luciforo" leaving behind his own fingerprints and DNA.

From the Fall of 1997 - Spring of 1998, "Luciforo" filed multiple state "ethics" complaints against my dad to multiple Massachusetts state government agencies to try to get my dad fired from my dad's then state government job at the Pittsfield Courthouse and force my dad to resign from his elected post on the Berkshire County Commissioner. During the Spring of 1998, Nuciforo made false complaints to the Pittsfield Police Department that I was threatening him, but the truth was that Nuciforo was bullying and threatening me. My dad found out about it, and my dad told me to stay away from Nuciforo. Nuciforo, along with the assistance of Daniel "Bureaucrat" Bosley (who is now a Boston Statehouse lobbyist), succeeded in abolishing Berkshire County Government through a budget rider attached to the fiscal year 1999 state budget.

When I lived in Pittsfield, I gathered nomination signatures in early-2004 to try to challenge Nuciforo in the state government election for State Senator. When I talked to people in Pittsfield, many local residents feared him and said that if they signed my nomination papers, they would lose their respective jobs. That is how powerful and intimidating Nuciforo and his family's political network was (and still is) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Also, Berkshire area State Representatives Smitty Pignatelli, Peter Larkin (who is also now a Boston Statehouse lobbyist), and Dan Bosley all declined to sign my nomination papers. I dropped out of the race, and moved to southern New Hampshire to live with my family who all relocated there.

I followed Nuciforo's careers in politics, law, him serving Boston's big banks and insurance companies, and his over three year old marijuana business over the years. In short, Nuciforo used his family's political domination over Pittsfield to enrich himself by royally screwing over anyone who stood in his way, including me, to cash in on state government, law, double dipping with Boston's financial district, and growing, distributing and selling pot.

In Truth!

Jonathan Melle

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