STATE BOARD OF RETIREMENT v. WOODWARD


446 Mass. 698 (2006)

STATE BOARD OF RETIREMENT & others v. FRANCIS WOODWARD & others.

Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the plaintiffs.

Edward J. McCormick, III (Elizabeth Maitland with him) for Francis Woodward.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


SPINA, J.

The primary question before us is whether the vote of the State Board of Retirement (board) to implement the pension forfeiture provisions of G. L. c. 32, § 15 (4), against former State Representative Francis Woodward, based on Woodward's Federal convictions of mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate travel to commit bribery, and conspiracy to commit those crimes, was time barred. We hold that it was not, and that...

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