Every place Geraldine Brooks has ever lived has given her a book, but up to now they have come at a lag. She wrote her first book, Nine Parts of Desire, about Muslim women in the Middle East, after she had left her Wall Street Journal post there and was living in London.
Nearly a week after he was arrested at his South Water street home and briefly jailed on criminal charges of embezzlement, Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. yesterday settled two separate civil cases alleging he misused client funds in real estate deals.
Criminal charges are still pending.
Expecting to come up with more than $400,000 by early next week, Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent is negotiating to delay a hearing set for Monday in Suffolk superior court, according to his lawyer.
Facing two separate lawsuits alleging he misused funds, Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. has had his bank accounts frozen and liens totalling $700,000 attached to his South Water street residence and other assets.
The cases also have prompted complaints alleging misconduct by Mr. Vincent to the state body that oversees lawyers, which is investigating, and to the Edgartown police department, which has opened an investigation into whether there is cause for criminal charges.
The Island Housing Trust is dramatically increasing its fund-raising as part of its aim to become a self-sufficient organization, after a thorough reexamination of its organization over the past year was prompted by financial fallout at its longtime funding source, the Island Affordable Housing Fund.
David White, by his own admission, was a terrible dancer. Just as well.
