Top Quincy official placed on leave pending investigation
QUINCY − A city department head has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.
Thomas Clasby, Quincy's director of elder services, is the subject of an investigation "related to city policies and procedures," according to Chris Walker, chief of staff to Mayor Thomas Koch.
Last year Clasby received just under $112,000 in salary.
Clasby has held his post since 1997, managing the city's Council on Aging and overseeing services ranging from recreational programming to housing assistance to medical and social transportation, according to his city profile.
In 2009, Clasby resigned from the board of Elder Housing Corp. amid allegations that he violated conflict of interest policies.
The Patriot Ledger reported in 2009 that Clasby helped his parents move into a recently vacated unit at Naval Terrace, even though the unit had been set aside by contract for low-income seniors who qualify for federal Section 8 housing assistance. Another couple was already at the top the waiting list.
Elder Housing Corp. is a nonprofit created to manage Naval Terrace, an affordable senior housing complex near Quincy's Squantum neighborhood. Elder Housing Corp. policies bar family members of city officials or board members from living in the senior housing community. Clasby was both.
Clasby is the second Quincy employee to be investigated in the past year. Police Detective Andrew Keenan, the son of former Chief Paul Keenan and the nephew of Mayor Thomas Koch and state Sen. John Keenan, was placed on leave last summer after a 2017 Hanover police report surfaced.
The report said Keenan made sexual advances on a young woman with intellectual disabilities, sending her pictures of himself via text message. Ultimately, the Plymouth County district attorney's office determined that no criminal activity had taken place.
The city hired Kurker Paget, a Waltham law firm that specializes in workplace investigations, to conduct the review, which began in mid-September.
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