Speaker Mariano Appointed the Microstamp Patent Holder to a State Commission?

[GOALJim]

Speaker Mariano Appointed the Microstamp Patent Holder to a State Commission?

Special Legislative Commission on Emerging Firearm Technology

Yet another piece of the now infamous Chapter 135 has come to light. Section 148 of the “Devil’s Snare” created “Special Legislative Commission on Emerging Firearm Technology” The stated purpose of the Commission is to “…study and investigate emerging firearm technology.”

According to the enacting language, the thirteen-member Commission is to focus heavily on “microstamping” technology. One member of the Commission is Todd LiZotte. Mr. Lizotte is the co-holder of at least four different patents on microstamping with a Orest Ohar.

Lizotte also has his hands in TacLabs and PinRecon.

“PinRecon™, a division of TACLABS, Inc, provides access to intelligence. The goal is to take this intelligence product and make it actionable with the data provided by Microstamping. Microstamping entails tracking criminal activity through unique codes on cartridges recovered from crime scenes.”

From anyone’s perspective this should be a blatant conflict of interest under Chapter 268A, Section 6. (For the record, commission members are considered state employees for the sake of conflicts.)


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The Moronic Myths of Microstamping

Section 148 of Chapter 135 – “(b) There is hereby established, pursuant to section 2A of chapter 4 of the General Laws, a special legislative commission to study and investigate emerging firearm technology.” According to the enacting language, the thirteen-member Commission is to focus heavily on “microstamping” technology.

 

[pastera]

If not for corrupt politicians, we would have no politicians.

 

[TLB]

Conflict of interest is not even in the vocab of mAss pols.

 

[not new guy]

This can’t be the first time anybody has flagged this, is it?

 

[CrackPot]

Conflict of interest is not even in the vocab of mAss pols.

Its right next to ethic violations on the list of things they dont care about. Hell, Deval Patrick declined to appoint anyone to head the state ethics commission for YEARS. This meant that ethics complaints went to the commission, got investigated, and then sat in a file drawer because without a head of the commission, there was no way to act on them or reach finalization.

Conflict of Interest would be an ethics commission investigation so I would not hold my breath.

Back when I was a chairman of my towns select board, we had a school board member get the superintendent of schools to pay for his non-special needs daughters tuition to cushing academy (expensive private school) out of the special education school budget. MASSIVE ethics violation. I (and the head of the finance committee) filed an ethics complaint with the state. It took 4 years to reach the obvious conclusion that they had both violated state ethics laws and they were both fined. But the school board member had already left the state so it didnt do much good there and the superintendent was already terminal on his contract so did no good there either. The delay was because of no head of the ethics commission...

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