- Judicial nominee played role in Suffolk registry mess
By Andrew Ryan GLOBE STAFF APRIL 12, 2017 Help for the long-troubled Suffolk Probate office came from Worcester County, where a probate court employee named Leslie Girardi had worked for a decade. A top state probate administrator sent Girardi to…
- Judicial nominee withdraws hours before confirmation hearing
By Andrew Ryan GLOBE STAFF APRIL 12, 2017 Judicial nominee Linda M. Medonis abruptly withdrew her nomination hours before a confirmation hearing Wednesday after a report detailed her role in transferring a probate employee from court to court despite repeated…
- Reinforcements
BOSTON HERALD Matt Stout April 9, 2017 Suspended Suffolk Register of Probate Felix D. Arroyo’s very public battle against the Trial Court is now getting help from some notable Boston pols. State Sens. Linda Dorcena Forry and Sonia Chang-Diaz, as…
- Felix Arroyo, backers vow to fight suspension
BAY STATE BANNER Yawu Miller April 5, 2017 Surrounded by supporters and accompanied by his attorney on the steps of the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, Suffolk County Register of Probate Felix D. Arroyo defended his record and vowed to fight…
- Felix D. Arroyo vows to fight ‘unjust’ suspension
By Andrew Ryan GLOBE STAFF APRIL 03, 2017 Embattled Suffolk Probate Register Felix D. Arroyo stood Monday on the courthouse steps and vowed to fight his “unjust and unwarranted suspension.” Speaking for the first time since his February suspension, Arroyo…
- Felix Arroyo alleges bias in Probate Court’s performance review
BAY STATE BANNER Yawu Miller March 22, 2017 The release of a scathing report on operations in the probate office has ratcheted up the tension in Suffolk County Register of Probate Félix Arroyo’s fight for reinstatement to the post from…
- Suffolk registry workers describe racial hostility, sexual harassment
BOSTON GLOBE Andrew Ryan and Stephanie Ebbert March 25, 2017 A Cape Verdean employee alleged that her co-workers called her a monkey. A white employee used a racial epithet to describe an African-American colleague. Another white worker loudly denounced new…
- Arroyo, on paid leave, makes fundraising plea
BOSTON GLOBE Andrew Ryan FEBRUARY 14, 2017 The fundraising plea came in a bright red font: “Félix Arroyo is Under Attack, He Needs us NOW More Than Ever!” That would be Felix D. Arroyo, Suffolk register of probate, whom court…
- Arroyo says he faced sabotage as he diversified staff at Suffolk County Register of Probate
BOSTON GLOBE Andrew Ryan FEBRUARY 14, 2017 The suspended Suffolk register of probate is alleging he faced resistance and sabotage by longtime court employees who resented his efforts to diversify the staff and hire people with language skills to assist…
- Caso de Félix D. Arroyo: El misterio continúa
Una investigación periodística ha comenzado para entender los entretelones e intereses que puedan existir para sacar a Félix D. Arroyo del juego En 1984, mientras era miembro del equipo del Senador John Kerry, el puertorriqueño Félix D. Arroyo fundó The…
- Felix Arroyo and son strike back
BOSTON HERALD Jack Encarnacao Wednesday, March 01, 2017 A son of suspended Suffolk County Probate Register Felix D. Arroyo says his family is “under attack” from an unjust system, in a new fundraising email blasted out yesterday, the latest salvo…
- Félix Arroyo fights removal from Massachusetts Probate Court
BAY STATE BANNER Yawu Miller February 23, 2017 Court administrator gave no specific charges of wrongdoing Questions swirled recently when Suffolk Conty Register of Probate Felix D. Arroyo was suspended from his position for reasons not released to the public,…
- Honorable public official doesn’t deserve suspicion
BOSTON HERALD Joyce Ferriabough Bolling Friday, February 24, 2017 For those of us who know and have long appreciated the work of Felix D. Arroyo, it is not surprising that his first focus after taking over the Suffolk County probate…
- Probate fight gets political
BOSTON HERALD Jack Encarnacao February 28, 2017 Embattled Suffolk Probate Register Felix D. Arroyo has recruited a top Democratic strategist and is asking the public for donations to his defense fund in an all-out political campaign against his suspension, even…
- Suffolk Probate Court is a mess, but who caused it?
BOSTON GLOBE Adrian Walker FEBRUARY 27, 2017 Three defenders of Felix D. Arroyo, the suspended Suffolk County Register of Probate, describe the office he inherited as so rife with racial tension, backbiting, and unprofessional behavior that dysfunction was practically inevitable.…
- Suffolk probate registry increased diversity under Arroyo
BOSTON GLOBE Andrew Ryan FEBRUARY 23, 2017 Racial and ethnic diversity has nearly doubled at the Suffolk County probate office in the two years since Felix D. Arroyo became register, according to demographic information released by the state court system.…
- Urban Update segment on Channel 7 – WHDH
In this Urban Update segment on Channel 7 – WHDH Yawu Miller of the Bay State Banner describes what he learned reporting on the case including hearing from Trial Court employees who describe how Félix was sabotaged and the racism…
- ¿Qué pasa con el caso de Félix D. Arroyo?
Mar 1, 2017 Redacción Boston – La suspensión misteriosa de Félix D. Arroyo de su cargo como Suffolk Register of Probate, pocos años después del último escándalo en esa oficina, tiene a muchos en la comunidad latina preguntándose ¿qué está…
