Political Insiders benefit from Hospital Hill Development: Footnotes

Mike Kirby

1. the NDC failed to file the CPF 22 until March 29, 2004, two months past the deadline.

2. The NDC’s principal office is located at the home of Charles DeRose, 677 North Farms Road, Florence (2004: http://corp.sec.state. ma.us)

3. The quote in the article was “The Lion’s share of donations for the Committee for Jobs and Housing came from the Northampton Development Corp, owned by Jack Hornor, of Ladyslipper Lane” I talked to Kristi Ceccarossi on January 4, and she said the sentence had been inserted by an editor.

4. MassDevelopment refused to respond to a FOIA request, they consider the total billings of Etheredge a confidential matter.

5. Its formal title was the Mayor’s business advisory Committee on the State Hospital Reuse. Minutes of its meetings are in the Mayor’s archives.

6. “Heartbreak Hotel How, in four years, an exciting project became a financial nightmare. “Paul Dunphy, Hampshire Life, February 15, l985

7. (Union News, May 8, 2002 “Mt.Tom Quarry Deal Off” David Reid) Realtor Patrick Goggins is listed as a spokeman for O’Connell)

8. March ,2004 telephone interview with Peter DeRose, owner of the Daily Hampshire Gazette admitted to me that he was a member.

9. House 5696 said “The master plan shall, as part of its site analysis, determine the historical significance, if any, of any existing structure or structure on the parcels. . . With the approval of the CAC, the determinations of historical significance shall supersede any such determination made by the Massachusetts Historical Commission.”

10. December 30, l993 letter from Lark Jurev Palermo to David Sullivan, counsel for Ways and Means

11. State Ethics Commission ruling, March 15, l995

12. Letter of April 3, l995 from Robert Mahar to the Honorable Mary Ford
Northampton Planning Department archives

13. Statement of State Representative Peter Kocot at Hospital Hill ceremony, November 2003 “Pat has been working tirelessly for this project for the last twenty years."

14. Goggins acquired a lease to his headquarters building from Stop & Shop as well a was broker for Carlon Drive properties; Etheredge billed the city $195 an hour, or $11,669 for Carlon drive legal expenses. Daily Hampshire Gazette “Two City Lawyers, two bills. Fire station fees exceed budget” Greg Kerstetter, 4/03/97. Matthew Pitoniak dba as Carlon Medical LLP, at the time Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cooley Dickinson Hospital, bought a lot in the development and built an office building that Cooley Dickinson doctors moved into.

15. CPF M102 filed January 20,2004 by the Committee to Elect Higgins; a re-election fundraiser for Mary Claire Higgins was hosted by Pat and Denise Goggins on October 29, 2003 at Matthew Pitoniak’s restaurant. $100 donations made to the Committee by Edward Etheredge, Patrick Goggins, Denis Goggins,and John Poirier (a Goggins broker)

16. Book 07750, page 126 Registry of Deeds

17. Daily Hampshire Gazette, September 17,2003, “Hospital Hill building lots snapped up”, Sunshine DeWitt

18. . 6% is customary the actual figure may be higher. Actual commission data is based on confidential arrangements between seller and listing agent.

19. On February 10,2001, Charles W. DeRose and Leila De Rose also gave Sweet Meadow a $116,000 mortgage to be repaid when the lots were sold:h Book 6354, page 167.

20. Book 6682 page 0199 Registry of Deeds

21. Appraisal ofNorthampton State Hospital Pirnce Street Northampton Massachusetts March 1, 2000 Steven R. Foster Insignia/ESG Inc.

22. Matthew Pitoniak, President of the Northampton Development Corporation, and his partners got $6.38 million in loans from Heritage Bank, and was partners with bank officer Mike Smith in his concealed ownership of VI Condo, in the Virgin Islands.

23. Attorney Edward Etheredge represented Richard Covell, President of the Bank, and was involved in Cummington Farms and its successor project.

24. Pichette and Goggins were the prime movers behind Cummington Farms, a 1986 venture that lost the bank about 3.7 million. Goggins had signed a $3 million guarantee but the bank settled for $100,000. Losses to unsecured creditors was about a million. Worthless collateral to secure their last loan came in the shape of high appraisals for property already mortgaged up the hilt. In 1989 appraiser Mike Crowley, who then worked for Smith & Reynolds valued Goggins’ building Condominium "A" at 71 King Street as being worth 1.065 million, but the FDIC determined that the value was "inconclusive, unsupported, and unsubstantiated." Upon the transfer of the loan to Fleet Bank of Massachusetts, N.A. (Fleet) in 1993, the property was appraised at $440M by JL Appraisers.

25. 1999 Calthorpe Sketch of Hospital Hill

26. Memorandum from Chris Dane, the Community Builders, dated April 4, l999 and accompanying notes.