The case for a criminal investigation into Dale Jones Jr., deposed director of fisheries enforcement in New England, gets more and more compelling.
That is because information about his conduct gets uglier and uglier.
Yet Jones remains absurdly employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, making almost as much as the $158,000 he was making in his previous job.
When is NOAA head Jane Lubchenco going to do something about it? And if she doesn't, when are her overseers in Congress going to start making some serious noise about it?
So far, Jones has been protected, while his level of misconduct suggests that his superiors ought to consider prosecution.
The list of particulars against Jones is by now familiar to those with even a casual involvement in the local fishing industry.
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