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currently facing criminal
charges and it is not known if
he has a criminal attorney.
A small-scale builder who
got his start working in the
city’s Department of Neighbor-
hood Development — where
Lynch had long worked before
joining the Planning and De-
velopment Agency in 2016 —
Turner had already obtained
zoning variances for the prop-
erty on H Street, but they ex-
pired in January 2017. In May
2017, he asked the zoning
board for an extension, saying
the project had been delayed
by a search for an oil tank on
the site and a change from 12
units to 11, which necessitated
further city review.
“He’d hate to lose a project
over a minor oversight,” Turn-
er’s zoning lawyer, George Mo-
rancy, told the board at the
May 23, 2017, meeting, ac-
cording to a video of the meet-
ing on the city’s website.
Such extensions are fairly
routine, city zoning experts
say, and the seven-member
board that day voted unani-
mously, with little conversa-
tion, to extend Turner’s permit
for a year. In January 2018,
Turner’s Green Brick Develop-
ment LLC sold the site to an-
other development firm for
$3.2 million, twice what he
had paid to buy it nearly four
years prior, according to deeds
filed in Suffolk County. That
developer is now building the
project.
That apparently routine
vote is at the center of a public
corruption case that rocked
City Hall Friday, hinting at the
possibility of influence-ped-
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dling within the Zoning Board
of Appeals, a group of mayoral
appointees who rule on dozens
of small and mid-sized devel-
opment projects across the
city each month. While the
board’s public votes are often
unanimous, many of its deci-
sions are first hashed out
through backroom negotia-
tions among developers,
neighborhood groups, and city
officials.
It’s not clear what sort of in-
fluence Lynch — whose BPDA
job managing city-owned real
estate did not involve review-
ing development projects —
may have had on any zoning
board members; court docu-
ments said only that he had
known one for “several years.”
It’s also not yet clear which
zoning member was involved.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh said
he has reached out to the US
Attorney’s Office seeking more
information to help “deter-
mine if action needs to be tak-
en as a result.”
“The type of behavior that’s
being investigated will not be
tolerated in any way, shape, or
form,” Walsh said in a state-
ment Saturday.The case against Lynch —
who has agreed to plead guilty
and serve 46 to 57 months in
prison — may have wide impli-
cations.
It is part of a broader look
by federal prosecutors into
Boston’s rapid development
boom and how much of it is
dominated by a relatively
small handful of developers,
architects, attorneys, brokers,
and other players, according
to one person with knowledge
of the investigation. A spokes-
woman for US Attorney An-
drew Lelling would only say
the matter remains under in-
vestigation.
City councilors have also
said it highlights the opaque
nature of so many develop-
ment decisions in Boston and
the need for greater transpar-
ency in the city’s famously
complex permitting process.
Still, veterans of the city’s
development scene said they
were surprised that such a
small matter as extending a
permit would rise to the level
of bribery. Larry DiCara, a for-
mer Boston city councilor and
longtime zoning lawyer, said
he has sought such extensionson behalf of clients countless
times, and there is rarely, if ev-
er, an issue.
“I’ve never even had more
than a passing question from
the board about why you
would be extended,” DiCara
said. “This is about as routine
as it gets.”
Indeed Turner’s zoning law-
yer, Morancy, said he, too,
viewed the matter as pretty
simple, describing it in an e-
mail as a “common extension”
of the sort he has handled
“dozens of times.”
“The notion of bribery oc-
curring, if true, strikes me as
being as preposterous as it is
appalling,” wrote Morancy,
who described Turner as a
“sporadic client” whom he
didn’t recall speaking with
since 2017. “What should be
needless to say is I had no
knowledge of any of this.”Maria Cramer of the Globe
staff contributed to this report.
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@bytimlogan. Milton J.
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length about what he framed as
the benefits of his Medicare-for-
all plan, the immorality of the
current system, then took ques-
tions and asked the audience
some of his own.
A teacher told Sanders she
pays about $12,000 per year for
health insurance.
“A pretty good percentage of
your total income, yes?” he
asked.
She said yes.
“That’s what I’m talking
about! That’s what I’m talking
about!” he said, voice raised.
“You don’t hear that discussion
on TV too often. ‘How much
Bernie’s idea is really expensive,’
” he said, appearing to make
fun of cable news chatter.
“You’re paying $12,000.
That is pretty damn expensive,”
Sanders said, promising that
she and her employer would
pay less under his plan.
Sanders also railed against a
system that drives too many
people suffering from terrible
illnesses into bankruptcy be-
cause of health care costs.
“That is not what a demo-
cratic, civilized society is about
and we are going to end that
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monter said to raucous ap-
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The familiar pitch was mu-
sic to the ears of the many
Sanders supporters in the audi-
ence, including Michael Merci-
er of Kittery, Maine, who said
his two top issues are health
care and climate change.
Walking out of the event,
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worked overseas, said Sanders
made a lot of good points about
the American health care sys-
tem.
“You see the health care de-
livery elsewhere and you won-
der: Why do we put up with
what we put up with?” said
Mercier.
Sanders’s 19 rivals for the
Democratic nomination were
on the minds of other support-
ers in the audience.
Melissa Brantley, a 42-year-
old Manchester, N.H., resident
who also backed Sanders in
2016, sees him as the only pro-
gressive running for president.
She ticked through several
candidates, scoffing at the idea
that former vice president Joe
Biden or Senator Kamala Har-
ris were anything close to pro-
gressive. And Elizabeth War-
ren’s 2016 endorsement of Hil-
lary Clinton, well she hasn’t
forgotten about that.
“If Elizabeth Warren were a
progressive, she would have
backed the progressive in 2016,
but instead she backed Hillary
Clinton,” Brantley said with dis-
dain.
She said Sanders is “the onlyuSANDERS
Continued from Page Bprogressive who sticks to what
he says. He’s the only one who
has been saying the same thing
for 40 years —”
Her father chimed in: “For-
ever!”
Other supporters expressed
significant doubts about
Biden’s abilities even more than
his liberal cred.
“Look, he was good with
Obama, but he’s not coherent
anymore,” said Mollene, a se-
nior citizen, Concord, N.H., res-
ident, and Sanders supporter
who declined to give her last
name.
“No. No,” she said emphati-
cally of Biden. “Not presidential
material.”
Liz Pearson, a 55-year-old
kindergarten teacher from Con-
cord, N.H., praised Sanders,
“the respect he has for people,”
and the policies that back it up,
from Medicare For All to his
plan to invest in K-12 educa-
tion.
“I’m a teacher, and there is
no respect or pay for that ca-
reer,” she said. “He understands
that education is more than
testing.”
Still, plenty of people watch-
ing Sanders’s spiel were trying
to figure out who they would
choose in New Hampshire’s
first-in-the-nation primary, five
months away.
Gary Downs, 73, was wait-
ing with his daughter to enter
the auditorium, as the sounds
of a band practicing drifted
through an open door.
The Kingston, N.H., resi-
dent, who considers himself lib-
eral, said he is looking for the
candidate “who is going to help
people who need help... we’re
going to be judged by how we
help the lesser of us.”
A few minutes later, he
walked into the auditorium and
the afternoon program began.
Introducing Sanders was
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &
Jerry’s ice cream. He spoke
about Sanders’s history and the
morality of the issues the may-
or-turned-congressman-
turned-senator has champi-
oned during his career.
Then Cohen underscored
what the polls say and began a
chant: “Bernie beats Trump!”Joshua Miller can be reached at
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