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