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Speaker 2: snow this weekend? Little bit? We'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 2: But first, good morning, I'm Laurie Kirby and talking our news.
Speaker 2: President elect Donald Trump will take office for the second
Speaker 2: time when he's inaugurated in ten days. When that happens,
Speaker 2: he will become the first president to enter office as
Speaker 2: a convicted felon. We get more of today's sentencing in
Speaker 2: this report from CBS News.
Speaker 3: President elect Donald Trump was sentenced today at his so
Speaker 3: called hush money trial in New York. It is a
Speaker 3: no penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge legal contributor caroline policy.
Speaker 2: It's not even a slap on the risk. There is
Speaker 2: no jail time, obviously, but no fines, no conditions, no restitution,
Speaker 2: no community service.
Speaker 3: Trump could have been sentenced four years in prison. Instead,
Speaker 3: the judge sidestep the issue of constitutional immunity by ensuring
Speaker 3: Trump will be the first person convicted of a felony
Speaker 3: to assume the presidency. CBS is Bob Costa.
Speaker 2: Will continue to appeal it.
Speaker 4: He's unhappy with the Supreme Court but there is a sense,
Speaker 4: based on my report in inside Trump's inner circle, that
Speaker 4: this conviction and this unconditional sentencing will not be a
Speaker 4: burden on his presidency once he takes office later this month.
Speaker 3: This case was the only one of his four criminal
Speaker 3: indictments to go to trial and may be the only
Speaker 3: one that ever will CBS New special Report. I'm Cammy McCormick.
Speaker 2: In other news, the new Transportation Task Force, created by
Speaker 2: Governor Healy is looking to get hundreds of millions of
Speaker 2: dollars in funding for the cash strapped MBTA. The Globe
Speaker 2: reports the new team wants to tap into a larger
Speaker 2: portion of revenue from the new Millionaire's Tax to get
Speaker 2: it done. They believe this change alone could almost instantly
Speaker 2: solve the teas immediate budget problem. Some educators say hands
Speaker 2: off that money for the millionaire's tax helps fund free
Speaker 2: community college in the Commonwealth. The MBTA is projecting a
Speaker 2: seven hundred million dollar budget shortfall in the coming fiscal year.
Speaker 2: Hiring picks up steam unexpectedly good last month as the
Speaker 2: unemployment rate ticks down. Here's cibus A Jill Slessinger with
Speaker 2: the numbers. The economy added two hundred and fifty six
Speaker 2: thousand jobs in December. That was much better than the
Speaker 2: one hundred fifty thousand jobs that analysts had expected for
Speaker 2: the month. For twenty twenty four, the economy added two
Speaker 2: point two three million jobs. That amounts to about one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six thousand jobs per month. Also down
Speaker 2: the Dow by six hundred and forty one points. We're
Speaker 2: seeing losses in the Nasdaq down two percent right now,
Speaker 2: SMP losing more than one and a half percent, And
Speaker 2: the federal government is warning about a growing scam where
Speaker 2: fraudsters target victims through text.
Speaker 1: The unsolicited tax sounds promising earn six figures working part
Speaker 1: time from home doing product reviews. People who have followed up, applied,
Speaker 1: and landed a job are then asked to buy equipment,
Speaker 1: pay a job search fee, or provide personal information as
Speaker 1: part of the onboarding process. The Federal Trade Commission calls
Speaker 1: it one of the fastest growing scams going that urges
Speaker 1: anyone who gets an unsolicited tax offering employment to delete it.
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan ABC News.
Speaker 2: It's still windy out there, but it's not a bear
Speaker 2: of a day. We're looking at times above freezing Marshfield,
Speaker 2: sunny thirty four New Bedford sunny thirty four, thirty three
Speaker 2: and sunny in Norway to Hie today thirty eight. Lots
Speaker 2: of sun We caught up tonight ahead of some snow tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and this will be intermittent snow into the early evening
Speaker 2: hours for your Saturday, maybe just as slippery coding to
Speaker 2: an inch of snow should be pretty hi tomorrow thirty two,
Speaker 2: warming up to forty on Sunday and Monday with mostly
Speaker 2: sunny scotes. It's eleven oh five. Boston City councilors think
Speaker 2: twice about ethics on their council. Wdbz's Madison Rogers fills
Speaker 2: us in.
Speaker 5: City Councilor Ed Flynn has been calling for the creation
Speaker 5: of a new ethics committee on the council more oversight
Speaker 5: and transparency, but in a decisive vote, Stockett has not
Speaker 5: been adopted. City Council President ruthzie Luisian rejecting the idea
Speaker 5: that the answer here is to have the council police itself.
Speaker 3: That could very easily be politicized on a body such
Speaker 3: as ours.
Speaker 5: Counselors raise concerns that the effort to address corruption could
Speaker 5: become a vehicle for it, and instead promised to work
Speaker 5: more closely with the State Ethics Commission. City councilor Tanya
Speaker 5: Fernandez Anderson is pleaded not guilty to allegation she pocketed
Speaker 5: several thousand dollars in a kickback scheme she voted. Present
Speaker 5: Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Updating the story we've been following for you here in
Speaker 2: the newsroom. A biggin Hill deadline imposed by the state
Speaker 2: auditor gets a response, but not what she was hoping for.
Speaker 2: It was an email telling Diana Dizaugli that most of
Speaker 2: the record she is seeking as part of a legislative
Speaker 2: audit are already publicly accessible. Desoglio demanded financial receipts and
Speaker 2: non disclosure agreements by three point fifteen yesterday afternoon. Well
Speaker 2: Speaker Mariana's office says they haven't executed any since he
Speaker 2: became speaker in December twenty twenty. The House also fired
Speaker 2: a salva with the auditor, reminding her of their recent
Speaker 2: rules change authorizing her to hire instead an independent firm
Speaker 2: to audit them, and the Senate point person also weighing in,
Speaker 2: saying Dezoglio's new authority approved by voters in Massachusetts to
Speaker 2: audit their chambers has raised serious constitutional questions. Who gets
Speaker 2: paid a lot in Massachusetts? They're on the hardwood, you.
Speaker 6: Mass Men's basketball head coach Frank Martin was the highest
Speaker 6: paid state employee in Massachusetts last year, take home salary
Speaker 6: a cool one point eight million dollars. The bulk of
Speaker 6: the top twenty earners in the state all work for
Speaker 6: the University of Massachusetts system, according to data from the
Speaker 6: Comptroller's office. All in all, the state's payroll increased from
Speaker 6: the nine point three billion and twenty twenty three Governor
Speaker 6: Healey earned just over two hundred twenty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: There were some twelve hundred state employees who earned more
Speaker 6: than the gov. Jim mckawb Z Boston's news radio and.
Speaker 2: Have fled this country to avoid serving time for storming
Speaker 2: the US capital four years ago, is now under arrest.
Speaker 2: North of the border.
Speaker 7: Anthony Voe from Bloomington, Indiana, was arrested without any trouble
Speaker 7: in Whistler, British Columbia, say Canadian Border Patrol officials. He
Speaker 7: skipped out on a court order to report last June
Speaker 7: for his nine month prison stint. A court transcript records
Speaker 7: Voe admitting that the January sixth riot was wrong, but
Speaker 7: since then frequently on social media, Vos criticized the judge
Speaker 7: and claimed he was wrongfully convicted and expects to be
Speaker 7: pardoned with other rioters by the next President Trump. Vose
Speaker 7: detained and suspected of entering Canada illegally.
Speaker 2: Voe is just one of more than seven Hunts A
Speaker 2: defendants to be sentenced to prison time for crimes related
Speaker 2: to the riot at the Capitol January sixth. You are
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