That story appears in the Boston Globe, September 10, 2015. Court appearances were made in 2016 where 2 of the defendants, Mathis Lemons and Ismael Morales, hired by Cornerstone Corporation, were found guilty of 7 counts of bribery, etc. They were employed at the Roxse Homes, a federal subsidized housing complex on Tremont Street in Roxbury, MA at the time. They were arrested and found guilty for accepting more than $30,000 in payments from multiple tenants in exchange for preferential treatment regarding the waiting list selection process.
This is another great and honorable job done by the office of US Attorney, Carmen M. Ortiz.
Cornerstone Corporation has a long history of preferential treatment, unethical, and illegal conduct toward various low income tenants in other places they've also mismanaged. The name of Robert L. Evans appears on a corporate document as just one of the partners/agents of Cornerstone Corp. That name also appears in an old article as someone who once worked at (MHFA) Mass Housing Finance Agency. In 2016, I see a person named Robert Evans at Peabody Properties as the replacement for Cornerstone Corp. at RoxSE Homes. hmmm...
Here's just one more story from December 2009 regarding Cornerstone Corp.; however, there are several others, too many to mention here.
**https://legalnewsline.com/stories/510522060-coakley-gets-settlement-with-property-management-company
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A consent judgment has been obtained by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's office against a property management company and its former manager to resolve allegations that they violated state anti-discrimination laws. Cornerstone Corporation and former manager Linda Evans falsely accused a foster parent of operating a day-care business out of her home and subsequently attempted to evict her.
Then there are those older stories where Cornerstone Corporation deliberately, illegally, and successfully tormented good tenants with medical disabilities for many years in Somerville and Rockland, MA. Some tenants could get no relief from the Massachusetts courts because tenants would only be forced into mediation proceedings when they requested a trial. Some law-abiding tenants died while others finally had to surrender their subsidized apartments to stop the many years of abuse and harassment by the people at Cornerstone Corp. and then from those at First Hartford Corp. and Connolly and Partners, LLC.
*Note: Before hiring a management company to manage your property, investigate all of the people behind the corporate names, if possible. It's been discovered that some of the same people from Cornerstone Corporation are partners or employees with affiliated companies.
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It's been reported that ambulances were called about 1-2 weeks ago to 191 Martha Drive in Rockland due to a couple of drug overdoses on the same day involving newer tenants at that residence. Drugs like cocaine continue to be distributed on that subsidized property.
