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Speaker 1: It's unacceptable. I'm very upset about it. We've taken action.

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Speaker 1: It will never happen again.

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Speaker 2: Governor more Heeley, responding to questions about how the deputy

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Speaker 2: director of her Western Massachusetts office, Lamar Cook, was able

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Speaker 2: to collect more than thirty thousand dollars at unused vacation

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Speaker 2: pay after being fired following his arrest on serious criminal charges.

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Speaker 1: As a former attorney general and somebody who prosecuted bad

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Speaker 1: guys and people who stole money, and prosecuted people who

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Speaker 1: engaged in fraud, waste, and abuse, nobody takes it more

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Speaker 1: seriously than me.

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Speaker 2: Lamar Cook was fired last month after his arrest on

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Speaker 2: drug trafficking and weapons charges.

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Speaker 1: What was done there, as I've said before, was a

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Speaker 1: huge betrayal of the public trust. Action was taken. I

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Speaker 1: was glad that he didn't get bill.

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Speaker 2: Today, Attorney General Andrea Campbell is suing Cook to recover

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Speaker 2: the erroneously paid out vacation pay at the State House.

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Speaker 2: Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio