Mass. treasurer seeks audit after state pays $1.7m to settle cases

The Boston Globe reports:

The Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has spent an amount nearly equal to its annual budget in the past two years to resolve a trio of employment cases involving harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, according to interviews and documents obtained by the Globe through public records requests.


The cases - two settlements and a court judgment - stem from complaints filed by former workers and a prospective employee over the past decade.

In one case, settled in 2009, the agency presented a novel defense to accusations it had unfairly denied a 57-year-old veteran a job. The defense: The two available slots had to go to relatives of lawmakers, or the Legislature would not fund the positions, according to legal documents.

This is how a political run economy is run. ObamaCare will open the floodgates to this kind of hiring.