I can hear my Grandmother: "You don't have to get out of the trouble you didn't get into in the first place."


Bill W and PShooter  get oak clusters on their Distinguished Service ribbons for this one.  The kind of behavior for which Ner(d)boso was  defrocked by his peers is  not in the category of a stupid legal error....We're talking about a  guy with a twisted personality and a criminal mind who went to law school in order to make more money than he could as  a common criminal.  You can be sure that there is a mound of similar stuff on this sleazebag that is as large as The Brockton Landfill . He should be fired...yesterday...and the ITA should resign....today.  Here's another pick-up truck load of our tax dollars down the tubes.

I remarked to someone last night: "If this clown is a good as he's telling us he is,  why in hell  did he apply for this job! ? It's like applying for a job as captain of a ship that is scheduled to be de-commisioned."  Has anyone checked the veracity of his library credentials? Get him outta here!!!

Where is Noah Wiley when you need him? I saw the movies, this guy is clearly not The Librarian!

Dick Wheeler wrote:

I....We're talking about a  guy with a twisted personality and a criminal mind who went to law school in order to make more money than he could as  a common criminal.

Isn't Sweet Brucey also someone with a twisted personality that is going to law school?  Hmmm.  Birds of a feather.

I've often wondered if Sweet Brucey was going to law school for a singular purpose, meaning to hand the IRS it's ass.  After all, nobody puts Sweet Brucey through that kind of pain without there being some vicious retribution.  IRS, you'r days are numbered.  Our Sweet Brucey is gunning for you.

Gogatemen: We're going to have to ask Nora Biki to bring us up to speed on the credentialing issue. I have heard her...and others...maintain that in order to be certified in Massachusetts you must have a Masters degree in Library Science. I t sounds to me that he may have the "paper"....But did anyone TALK with people who have worked with him ?  I doubt VERY much that the guy I read about in the court cases  that Bill W has found suddenly became the sort of person who comes to mind when you say, "Librarian."

In the discipline of reading job applications there are yellow flags and there are red flags.  His behavior as a lawyer is one of the biggest red flags I've ever seen.   Did he talk about it with the ITA?  "I used to do things that  I am  ashamed of. After I was disbarred as a lawyer I took control of my life...blah blah....But no...He covered it up.    Someone should pay a visit to the last place he worked and do some inquiring.

Sad situation for important positions in our town.

Dick..100% right on "library dude"...Man, I love to hear your words of wisdom..

On Cruz..IMO, he's easily the best of them (seems to be the consensus, also)..
But, he hardly ever speaks up, and when he does I CAN"T HEAR HIM..those two thing's are tough for me to overlook..and, although he does "dissent" on occasion to the other's, he often goes along with them (when I feel he shoudn't)..I can't pick out all the votes, but I've seen it in the meeting's..My thoughts are..How would he "work" in a re-formed "hierarchy" ?? How would any of them? Although, honestly, I won't allow myself to imagine a board including (not necessarily in this order) Brucey, Brenda, Jane, Cronie to remain beyond April..and the need to replace the Moderator and Town Clerk is equally important..The "fixing" begins immediately following the "clean sweep"

You listening guys??? Yeah, I know..

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Molly wrote:

Can you say GOOGLE???  Someone needs to teach the bos what "to Google" means. It's a verb now folks.

This wasn't a mistake. They hired just the man they wanted in illegal executive session and we can whine all we want.

PShooter wrote:

"Library dude's" highly suspect background, which includes defending some pretty "undefendable" character's (IMO), fits right in with our "leader's", don't ya think?

Speaking of undefendable characters, I wonder if our Sweet Brucey likes this guy as he'll give some free legal advice on Sweet Brucey's run and gun battle with the IRS?  You can't tell me that when a powerful federal agency is hounding you for $180,000, threatening to destroy your way of life, that it doesn't take over your life.  IMO, Bruce is going to law school for a particular reason.  And as a student of law, is it any wonder that he's more than willing to lead his town into litigation?  How can someone lead his town when his entire life revolves around revenge?  That's our Sweet Brucey, he of the black hearts.

I withdraw my earlier praise of this candidate and will from now on remember Bill's wise advice "google before you talk."

IM SURE THEIR WERE MORE QUALIFIED CANDIDATES. BUT ASK YOURSELF WHY WOULD YOU COME TO WORK IN WAREHAM?

This whole thing bothers me. So, I sent out some feelers and asked some questions and here is what I learned.

Sanguinet and the library director from Plymouth did the bulk of the interviews. Sanguinet lives in Plymouth.

One of the finalists was from a town not far from here. She came highly recommended by the regional library office. I heard good things about this person. She wasn't hired. Instead we get a guy who was suspended by the NY bar.

The newly hired director's parents live in Plymouth and he said in the bos meeting on Tuesday that he visits them regularly from NY.  Could there be a slight bias towards all things Plymouth here?

So, did we get the best candidate? Not according to my sources.  Something smells rotten here. 

Did I hear Cronan ask who did the interviews? Why weren't the selectmen there?

But here is an even better question--why wasn't anyone from the library community invited to sit in on the interviews? No staff member was included. No member of the Friends. And I wonder why the last library director, who I am told helped Griswold fill out important required state forms after she left her job here, on the search committee? Oh wait, what search committee? We don't do it that way in Wareham. What was I thinking---do everything you can to hire a department head? Nah. Hire your twin--am I the only one who thinks the new guy looks like the ITA--and party together in Plymouth after hours?

Once again, the ITA and bos have made a bad hiring decision. Don't hold your breath for the new TA being a highly qualified addition to our town's leadership.

Bill's right..Here's an analogy I like to use for this BoS, etc, ..Imagine if you will....

If your a mass murderer (ok, duh..obviously, they're not), but if you were, and had already committed multiple "crimes" (enough to put you away for many lifetimes)..then why not continue to commit the crimes? See, once the conscience is gone, and the the consequences reach "saturation level"..then what?

No conscience, no consequence..no brainer..

They need to control whatever they can, with zero accountability when the shit hits the fan..it's just a "deft political move" for them to shift the blame elsewhere. They even consider themselves "smarter" because they know things you may not..and your "ignorance" is something they can exploit.

So, if I call them douchebags, on occasion, I think I'm keeping it "nice"
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Last edited by PShooter (2009-11-06 10:18:33)

Where is the information on the lawyer?

Thanks Bill (and Dick)!

I would be willing to give this new person a chance because he struck me as being intelligent and that is what we as a community are about (giving people chances, not judging people based on their associations), right everybody? Don't we always complain about how we keep reading the same allegations over and over again? At some point people have to have an opportunity to redeem themselves, yes?

Bill makes an interesting point regarding the legality of the hiring, I read something about that somewhere but I can no longer recall where.

And everyone can feel free to disagree with me :-)

I normally would agree with you Cara, but if you take this same argument and apply it to the TA, does it make sense? If we are willing to give the new Library director a second chance, then shouldn't we also give the TA a second chance? I think it sets a dangerous precedent that could come back to haunt the town.

Wareham rescinds hiring new library director
Past suspension by New York Bar Association cited
By Steve Urbon
surbon@s-t.com
WAREHAM — The town’s new library director is out of a job just three days after being introduced at the weekly Board of Selectmen’s meeting on Tuesday.

Interim Town Administrator John Sanguinet said in a press release this afternoon that he is rescinding his appointment of Robert Nerboso after reviewing Nerboso’s one-year suspension by the New York Bar Association.

Nerboso, whose mother lives in Plymouth, is now with the Brooklyn Public Library, is both a criminal defense attorney and a librarian. According to information available online, his law license was suspended one year in 1997 for unethical conduct: He was reportedly accused of pressuring a client to plead guilty in a burglary case.

Local bloggers discovered the suspension within hours after Nerboso’s introduction on Tuesday and began criticizing the selection. But Sanguinet wrote that while he knew about the suspension and discussed it with Nerboso during his interviews, he did not inform the Board of Selectmen about it.

“During my negotiations with Mr. Nerboso he made me fully aware of his one-year suspension from the New York Bar Association; he explained the details surrounding this issue and that he had completed an ethics test with the New York Bar and was fully reinstated,” Sanguinet wrote.

He added, “Based on reports that have recently been brought to my attention, I further reviewed the full disciplinary action taken by the New York Bar Association and believe that at this time it is in the best interest of the town to rescind the appointment of Mr. Nerboso. I regret that I need to take this action. However, I have spoken with Mr. Nerboso and made him aware of my decision and he fully understands.”

“Further,” wrote Sanguinet, “I never shared this information with anyone, including the Board of Selectmen. To my knowledge, the Board of Selectmen only became aware of this issue when reports recently surfaced. I chose not to inform the Board of this issue solely on my initial interpretation of the issue and my belief that it has no bearing on Mr. Nerboso’s qualifications as a library director.”

Nerboso was to have started in the Wareham Free Library on Nov. 30. The library has been without a director since the resignation of Susan Pizzolato in June.

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Last edited by Flyspeck (2009-11-06 16:07:34)

Actually, I was basing my post on my belief that everyone deserves an opportunity to prove themselves. Obviously he has an undesirable past, but people do learn from their mistakes.
It is a moot point now that the ITA has rescinded his offer, nice to know that he didn't feel that information worthy enough to share. In a day and age when information is everywhere I would think full disclosure to be the best course of action. But, what do I know?

Molly wrote:

I said it before---we need to teach these people--bos and ITA-- how to google new employees in major positions. How sad that a bunch of bloggers had to expose the truth about this guy.

Sad is not the first word that comes to my mind.

You're assuming Butt Monkey spoke truthfully when he feigned ignorance. No part of this selection process complied with the commonwealth's public meeting laws.