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Page 4 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, OCTObER 28, 2022 Mayor announces Community Bowl event Oct. 29 Special to The Advocate M ayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce that the City of Everett, in partnership with the Boston Renegades, will be hosting the Community Bowl on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Everett Veterans Memorial Stadium (located on Cabot Street). As part of Mayor DeMaria’s “Everett For Everyone” initiative, residents are invited to come watch the Everett High School (EHS) Alumni take on the Boston Renegades Alumni in a fun and competitive game of flag football. The goal is to bring the Everett community together to enjoy some flag football and help local resident Brandon Conde with his recovery from a spinal cord injury he suffered in 2019. The event will have free admission for all who attend and will feature concession stands selling food, drinks and merchandise from both teams. All proceeds from the event will go towards supporting Conde’s recovery. The event RESNEK| FROM PAGE 1 $4.95 GALLON We accept: MasterCard * Visa * & Discover Price Subject to Change without notice 100 Gal. Min. 24 Hr. Service 781-286-2602 his publisher, Josh Resnek, to collect thousands of dollars in cash from opponents of the Mayor to fund a political campaign to defeat DeMaria and elect his opponents in the summer of 2021. According to a court document that is backed up by dozens of pages of deposition transcripts and copies of emails and a “strategy memo” sent by Resnek, Philbin – who bitterly disliked DeMaria and wanted to drive him out of office because the Maywill begin with a pregame “tailgate” from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. for residents to come together, play field games and have fun. The matchup between the EHS Alumni and Renegades Alumni will kick off at 3 p.m. and will feature a halftime show for all to enjoy. After the game, there will also be a “Meet the Team Mixer” at the Schiavo Club (located at 71 Tileston St.) from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Attendees 21 and older only are invited to attend to meet the players from both participating teams or did not use taxpayers’ dollars to purchase insurance contracts through the Philbin Insurance Company and did not offer Philbin’s Everett business interests favorable treatment – approved a campaign to collect thousands of dollars in “cash infusion” from wealthy individuals who wanted DeMaria defeated. In the emails, Resnek boasted of picking up envelopes full of “C-Notes” from the back of a car, receiving thousands of dollars in cash from other sources and picking up “commitments” from wealthy individuals to pay the Leader Herald so that it could print over 10,000 copies of the Leader Herald filled with derogatory articles about the Mayor, and deliver them door to door to 8,000 Everett residences and 2,400 other locations each week for seven weeks in August and September 2021. That was just before the primary election for Mayor in Everett and would culminate in what Resnek told his boss would be an “atomic bomb” that Philbin and Resnek would “drop” on DeMaria and, hopefully (from their perspective), result in Mayor DeMaria’s defeat. Time to worry According to recent testimoand support Brandon Conde through donations. There will be food, a cash bar and plenty of fun. The EHS Alumni team will be comprised of football players who played in the championship seasons 2001, 2002 and 2003, which are known as the “three-peat” years. This is the time period when EHS football won the championship for three years in a row. The Boston Renegades is a professional women’s football team that is part of the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA). ny from Philbin’s former Vice President for Operations, Elena Vega, excerpts of which were attached to the filing, the SOLE purpose of Philbin’s “newspaper” – which Vega testified was “not a real newspaper” – was driving DeMaria out of office. Every issue was filled with articles that made accusations of one kind or another about DeMaria. According to Vega, when she asked Philbin why he was keeping afloat a purported newspaper that was “dead” and which required Philbin to pay virtually all of the costs of keeping the paper alive out of his own pocket, including by handing her wads of cash, Philbin replied, “Don’t worry about it.” Philbin’s animus against DeMaria was so crude, Vega testified, that Philbin told her that he had hired a private investigator to “follow” the Mayor in hopes of gathering dirt on him that he could then publish. Besides the various emails sent by Resnek bragging to a third party about all the cash he was collecting from interested parties to pay the Leader Herald to wage a political campaign against the Mayor, the court filing attaches a “strategy memo” sent by Resnek to Philbin on July 29, 2021, about seven weeks before the primary in which DeMaria was running against Fred Capone and Gerly Adrien, in which Resnek lays out what the strategy will be for using $5,000 from “Mr. A”, $5,000 from “Mr. B” and $6,000 from “Mr. C” to deliver Philbin’s and Resnek’s “messaging” against the Mayor to every home in Everett every week leading up to the election. According to the filing, Resnek admitted that Philbin had previously paid Resnek $10,000 to provide “public relations” services for an opponent of DeMaria. The court filing raised the issue of whether Philbin and Resnek had violated Massachusetts’s campaign finance laws. Strategy for dummies In the July 2021 “Strategy Memo” by Resnek in which he The WFA is a professional full-contact women’s football league that began in 2009 and consists of 64 active teams across the United States (as of the 2022 season). The Renegades won their seventh overall and fourth consecutive WFA Pro National Championship this past season. Mayor DeMaria invites residents to enjoy a day of community and celebrating Everett’s charitable nature through a friendly game of flag football. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. lays out his plan via email to Philbin, he states, “Just a few thoughts and scribbles about $$$$$,” describing his plan to blanket the city with his anti-DeMaria campaign. In what he labels “For Internal Use Only – Seven Weeks Until the Primary,” Resnek provides cost and estimates for 10,000 newspapers to be printed door to door and to stores and locations: $7,000 for delivery and $8,400 for printing for a total of $15,500. “Mr. A and Mr. B will pay $5,000; and Mr. C will pay $6,000 – Explanation – These three payments to us will pay almost entirely for all our printing and distribution costs for the 7 weeks. Whatever comes in from advertising will also add into our bottom line. For the next 7 weeks, you get a free ride from cash infusions. There will be more than several thousand for our use in addition. Then comes the ten weeks until the ELECTION in first week of November.” Resnek continues: “STRATEGY - We should remain vigorous creating the news windows for Adrien and Capone. They will play into this. It makes messaging and campaigning easier for them and more beneficial. With our citywide circulation door to door their messaging more than anything else is crucial. Also crucial are the Carlo bits and pieces we have for publication. Our question is how to best maximize what we have before the September 21 Primary and when exactly to publish those bits and pieces. I would suggest we print all of what we have in an insert to the Leader Herald with big images of Adrien, Capone and DeMaria on the front cover like a Globe Magazine insert into the Sunday paper. This achieves several of our ambitions to look, feel and sound real to the people of the city receiving our publication on their door steps. “An atomic attack on Wednesday, September 15, with an insert of say 8 tab pages including RESNEK | SEE PAGE 24

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