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Boston Mayor’s finance director charged with money laundering in prison drug smuggling scheme – Boston 25 News
BOSTON — Freda Brasfield, the Administration and Finance Director in Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office, was arraigned Friday on money laundering charges in an alleged prison drug smuggling scheme. Brasfield, who is also a longtime Boston Democratic political activist and community organizer, appeared in Woburn Superior Court, along with two co-defendants, Jaime Liberty and Jayleen Rivera, both of whom are facing charges of conspiring to smuggle drugs into MCI Shirley. BREAKING: Top Boston Finance Director Freda Brasfield indicted, charged w/money laundering in alleged scheme to get synthetic drugs into state prison system. We were only media at Superior Court. My exclusive story @Boston 25, 5 PM. pic.twitter.com/6Isqidq60q — Bob Ward…
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Berkshire Hills Bancorp Appoints Former Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President and CEO Eric Rosengren as New Independent Director
BOSTON, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB), the guardian business of Berkshire Bank, a foremost socially responsible local community financial institution with economical centers in New England and New York, announced the election of Eric S. Rosengren to the Board of Directors of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary Berkshire Bank effective April 5, 2023. Mr. Rosengren provides extensive economical, threat management and regulatory know-how obtaining served as the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston until his retirement in 2021. On his election, Mr. Rosengren was determined to be an unbiased director and a fiscal expert and appointed to the Risk Management,…
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