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Kent Allen Healy, West Tisbury select board member, passed peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends, on October 31, 2021. He was 89 years old. Kent was born in New Haven, Conn., to Ruth Emily Allen Healy and Kent Tenney Healy on Sept. 30, 1932, the third of four siblings. He attended the Foote School […]
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Under Massachusetts' civil forfeiture system, police can confiscate property they suspect is part of a drug crime and prosecutors could hold it indefinitely, even when criminal charges have been dismissed. Trying to get money back is so onerous, legal experts say it may violate due process rights.
Massachusetts prosecutors can hold on to seized money indefinitely, even when people are not charged with a crime. In Worcester County, it’s so hard to get one’s money back, some legal experts say it may violate due process rights.
Listen • 5:45 Charles Clark, of the Tenants’ Development Corporation, walks past a South End brownstone, one of the affordable properties managed by the corporation. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Affordable housing across the country is facing an onslaught few saw coming — investors looking to cash in on real estate that was dedicated to people with low incomes. An investigation by WBUR finds financial firms seek outsized profits for themselves in a federal housing program paid for by taxpayers. Lawmakers say these investors are subverting Congress’s intent for the law and ar...