By Richard Weir
The Boston Herald
BOSTON — A Boston fire chief has been indicted on charges he swindled the city out of nearly $50,000 while he ran the fire academy by having vendors write checks to his credit card companies, while he took home a flat-screen TV, gas grill and other items paid for with department funds, said state Attorney General Martha Coakley.
District Chief Edward A. Scigliano, 45, of Kingston, will appear in Suffolk Superior Court on Nov. 25 to face arraignment on five counts of larceny over $250 and five counts of procurement fraud. Each felony carries a maximum five-year prison sentence and fines ranging from $10,000 to $25,000.
“We allege that this defendant abused his position as a public employee in order to benefit personally,” Coakley said. “He allegedly stole tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars that should have gone back to the city of Boston and, instead, directed that money for his own personal use.”
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