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ºIn 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the
first national election, and declared New York City the temporary
national capital.
ºIn 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces began
bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but were driven back by
American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following
morning.
ºIn 1860, General of the Armies of the United States John J.
Pershing was born in Laclede, Mo.
ºIn 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was
elected to the US Senate; she became the first woman to serve in
both houses of Congress.
ºIn 1962, Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett rejected the US
Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit
James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address,
‘‘We will not drink from the cup of genocide.’’
ºIn 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correction-
al Facility in western New York ended as police and guards
stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of
32 inmates and 11 hostages.
ºIn 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing
an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
ºIn 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six
days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
ºIn 1997, funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for No-
bel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
ºIn 1998, former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace died in
Montgomery at age 79.
ºIn 2001, two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few
jetliners returned to the nation’s skies, but several major airports
remained closed and others opened only briefly. President George
W. Bush visited injured Pentagon workers and said he would carry
the nation’s prayers to New York.
ºIn 2008, rescue crews ventured out to pluck people from their
homes in an all-out search for thousands of Texans who had stub-
bornly stayed behind overnight to face Hurricane Ike.
ºIn 2009, the body of missing Yale University graduate student
Annie Le was found behind a research lab wall on what would have
been her wedding day. (A lab technician, Raymond Clark III, was
later sentenced to 44 years in prison for murdering Le.) Kim Cli-
jsters, capping a comeback from two years out of tennis, became
the first unseeded woman to win the US Open as she defeated No.
9 Caroline Wozniacki, 7-5, 6-3.
ºLast year, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the
Judiciary Committee, said she had notified federal investigators
about information she received concerning Supreme Court nomi-
nee Brett Kavanaugh from a person who ‘‘strongly requested confi-
dentiality.’’ (The person was Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged she
was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh when they were teens.)This day in history
Lynch for his official assistance
in obtaining a key vote from the
Zoning Board of Appeal,” Chao
told the judge. “The value of
that [vote] resulted in a
$500,000 profit to the develop-
er.”
When Saris asked Lynch if
he disagreed with the govern-
ment’s account, Lynch said, in a
soft voice, “I do not, your hon-
or.” He did not comment other-
wise.
The judge set sentencing for
Jan. 24 and allowed Lynch to
remain free in the meantime.
“I think that’s appropriate
given your ties to the communi-
ty,” Saris said.
According to court docu-
ments, Lynch could serve 46 to
57 months in prison under a
deal with federal prosecutors.
He also pleaded guilty to filing a
false tax return.
The charges, first disclosed
in a federal court filing in Au-
gust, have rippled through City
Hall, with Mayor Martin J.
Walsh’s onetime close aide and
former head of the inspectional
services department taking a
leave of absence, and a zoning
board member involved in the
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project resigning this week.
The zoning board is the gate-
keeper for thousands of small
and medium-size developments
across Boston, and its decisions
have changed the landscape of
the city. City councilors have
called for reforms, and Walsh
commissioned an outside re-
view of the board’s policies and
procedures. Walsh also hired
former federal prosecutor Brian
Kellytoinvestigatethesitua-
tion involving the circumstanc-
es surrounding the South Bos-
ton development, and whether
there was other wrongdoing.
“I’ve asked him to be as
quick as possible,” Walsh said
Thursday. “I don’t want this to
be a prolonged, dragged-out
thing, for obvious reasons.”
Walsh commented after an
event Thursday morning just a
mile from the federal court
house. The mayor was joined by
housing advocates, top aides,
and city councilors as he signed
a bill to make it easier for the
city to require affordable hous-
ing funding from new develop-
ment. The measure needs ap-
proval from the state Legisla-
ture.
The event was a reminder of
the city’s pressing need formore housing, at lower prices,
and that development will
grind forward, despite con-
cerns with the zoning board
and its permitting process.
“Wherever we go, in any
neighborhood, we hear about
housing,” Walsh said. “We learn
about people being pushed out
of the city of Boston, about not
being able to afford to live here.
This is an issue we have to keep
working on.”
Prosecutors said Lynch took
the $50,000 bribe to help the
developer get an extension for a
zoning variance that was ini-
tially granted in 2013. Lynch di-
rected a member of the zoning
board to act on behalf of the de-
veloper, securing a key vote that
allowed the project to go for-
ward, according to court docu-
ments. The vote, according to
prosecutors, increased the prof-
it on the sale of the project by
more than a half-million dol-
lars.
The prosecutors did not
identify the developer or the
vote at issue, but two people fa-
miliar with the case confirmed
the property was a multi-unit
condo development on H Street
in South Boston, and the devel-
oper was Steve Turner. He hasnot responded to requests for
comment.
The zoning board member
who allegedly acted at Lynch’s
direction was not identified,
and there was no suggestion in
court records that he or she
committed a crime.
Craig Galvin, a Dorchester-
based realtor who was appoint-
ed to the zoning board by Walsh
in 2016, resigned Sunday night
amid ongoing scrutiny of the
case.
Last week, the mayor’s spe-
cial adviser, William “Buddy”
Christopher, also agreed to a
temporary leave, without pay,
pending the review. As the for-
mer head of the Inspectional
Services Department, Christo-
pher’s staff oversaw the zoning
board duties. Before he joined
City Hall in 2014, he had been
the original architect for the H
Streetproject,andhisformer
architectural firm — now man-
aged by his son — continued to
manage the project at the time
of the 2017 vote.Milton J. Valencia can be
reached at milton.valencia@
globe.com. Tim Logan can be
reached at Timothy.Logan@
globe.com.Lynch pleads guilty in zoning bribe case
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Urban, 3, and his
father, Greg Urban, of
Needham from
visiting the Boston
Marathon map in
Copley Square on
Thursday.
Temperatures hovered
in the 60s as a front
moved through the
state, dropping about
a quarter inch of rain.
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