The Globe reports on the legal victory by Carlo DeMaria whom the Everett Leader Herald called "Kickback Carlo" among other things. A Middlesex Superior Court judge last year froze property owned by paper owner Matthew Philbin and publisher - and writer - Joshua Resnek after concluding DeMaria had a damn good case that the paper was deliberately making crap up about him.
A Middlesex Superior Court judge has ruled that Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria has such a strong likelihood of winning a libel suit against a local newspaper that he is freezing property belonging to one of the paper's owners and its editor in anticipation of as much of $850,000 in damages. Read more.
The editor of the Everett Leader Herald has agreed to provide Mayor Carlo DeMaria with the names and contact info for the confidential sources it said it relied on for articles accusing him of corruption - articles over which DeMaria is now suing the newspaper and the city clerk for defamation. Read more.
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