The state settled a 2013 wrongful termination lawsuit with Pamela J. Lombardini, who claimed she was intimidated into resigning.
WOBURN, MA — A former Massachusetts Parole Board member who voted to free a man who would later kill a Woburn Police officer in the winter of 2010 shootout will be paid $ Two Hundred Thousand Dollars under a settlement with the State. Pamela J. Lombardini had claimed that former Governor. Deval Patrick’s chief of staff and armed state troopers threatened her and forced her to resign after Dominic Cinelli killed Woburn patrolman John “Jack” Maguire during a botched robbery of the Kohl’s Department store on Washington Street. Dominic Cinelli, who had been paroled in 2009, was serving 3 life sentences at the time of his release.
In her lawsuit, Lombardini claimed that Patrick administration Chief of Staff William Cowan told her and other parole board members “it would get ugly” if they did not sign resignation letters during a January 13th, 2011 meeting.
“It is very frustrating. Those people messed up and we have to pay for it,” former Police Officer Robert DeNapoli, , told the Boston Herald, which 1st reported this story.
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