Canton Coverup Part 386: Massachusetts Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Turtleboy’s Journalism, Alleged Pedophile Fake Bishop Tony Branch Compares Himself To Michael Proctor

 

 

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Eight years ago a blog was published on the now defunct Turtleboysports.com website (the precursor to TBDailyNews.com) about a Brockton man named Anthony “Tony” Branch, who was allegedly using his status as a “Bishop” to influence policies at Brockton High School and make unfounded claims of racism. I did not publish the blog, as I had a number of people publishing articles in 2016 when the story was written. However, Tony Branch sued me exactly 3 years later for defamation (on day before the statute of limitations was about to expire), falsely claiming that I wrote the blog that he claims libeled him.

I didn’t even know who he was because I didn’t write the blog, but as it turns out Tony Branch is a well known public figure for all the wrong reasons in Brockton. He has run for City Council, Governor’s Council, and Mayor. He was also the first black person elected chairman of the Southeastern Regional Vocational School Committee.

So the burden to prove defamation was extremely high. After he sued me I began to dig to learn more about this man, and I found a lot of disturbing things. It turns out he was a lot worse than just a race baiting fake Bishop. According to court documents he groomed his ex-wife and had sex with her when she was 15 years old. He later assaulted her several times after falsely accusing her of cheating on him. His wife testified in court to all the fraud he committed scamming the taxpayers while squatting in a Brockton home where he’s not paying his mortgage. He also was arrested while running for office in 2015 when the troubled young girlfriend he groomed called the cops on him and them that he was hiding ammunition, which violated the restraining order his wife had on him.

This was a quick list of things I uncovered in my investigation of the Chair of a regional school district:

• Having sex with a 15 year old girl he groomed and later married, even though she claimed she was never in love with him
• Impregnated the woman before marrying her
• Shacking up with a vulnerable woman with a criminal record and a young baby, who he had just met on the Internet
• Having orders placed against him by two his children, their mother, his ex-wife, the woman he shacked up with, and the man who had sex with his ex-wife
• Owed over $100K in credit card debt, and $42K in unpaid taxes
• Had gun charges filed on him and violated an abuse prevention order
• Lying about being a bishop when he wasn’t
• Told several contradictory stories about who ordained him as a minister and when
• Turned his house into a church, which would mean its exempt from paying taxes
• Defrauded the government to get Section 8
• Tried to defraud DCF for benefits
• Attempted to defraud an insurance company
• Was a Muslim at one point before while also claiming to be a Christian minister, and still has a Facebook account that uses his Muslim name
• Abuses the court system to silence people who criticize him

Branche filed a motion to have the blogs about him taken down, but the Judge ruled that not only were they protected opinion, the allegations were “substantially true.” Despite this he refused to resign from the School Committee and actually won re-election in November 2022. Luckily the School Committee voted 7-3 to ban him from attending the high school graduation after parents complained that they didn’t want their children to be forced to shake his hand. We showed up at School Committee meetings to protest and disrupt them in order to force this change. I was not charged with witness intimidation for this, because you’re allowed to protest people in America unless they’re a McAlbert.

Last February a Judge in Plymouth Superior Court dismissed Branch’s lawsuit against me.

But Branch never goes away, and he immediately appealed the case to the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Last week they once again ruled in my favor, and used some language that could be helpful in fighting the witness intimidation charges with the McAlberts. The court affirmed that calling someone a “fake Bishop” is a constitutionally protected opinion, and that it was accurate to say that he was bilking the taxpayers. It was Branch’s own deposition testimony, in which he admitted to all the fraud, that ultimately gave Turtleboy the W.

“The reference to the online degree was even more generous than the truth of no degree at all.”

Boom. Roasted.

The appeals court pointed out that Branch tried and failed to silence my speech by claiming that my speech caused him “emotional distress,” and that the idea that I was causing “intimidation under the cloak of being a reporter” was baseless. This is the exact same thing the McAlberts are accusing me of.

Lawyers Weekly wrote about my case and interviewed my Attorney Ryan McLane. They also interviewed Branch, who claims he’s appealing the L to the SJC, and aligned himself with the McAlberts.

“Aidan Kearney did the same thing to me that he did to that trooper.”

By “that trooper,” I assume he means Michael Proctor. And I for one couldn’t be more pleased that a grifting  pedophile fake Bishop aligns himself ideologically with the Massachusetts State Police. Tony Branch is right about one thing – I did do the same thing to him that I did to Proctor and the McAlberts. I exposed their criminal behavior, peacefully protested them at schools, and used hyperbolic speech to mock and degrade them. And now the Massachusetts Court of Appeals has ruled that all of that is constitutional. I’ve been doing what I’ve done to the McAlberts for years, but it wasn’t illegal until I did it to a bunch of dirty cops in Canton.

Tony was also right that I did offer him $600 to drop the case. Normally I wouldn’t do that, but it cost me more than $20K in legal fees to beat this, and I won’t be getting a refund from Branch now that I won. He had initially offered to drop it for $600 and I declined because I thought it was a shakedown. When I told him a year later I’d take him up on the offer he declined, which he is apparently now calling “blackmail.” Looks like you should’ve taken the 600 Tony.