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Gov. Deval Patrick says Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker developed and supported an out-of-control Big Dig financing scheme that was misleading, diverted money from other transportation projects and diminished public confidence in state government.

“He’s got to answer for it,” the governor declared, seemingly without a hint of irony.

It’s a line that could have come from his 2006 gubernatorial campaign, when Patrick was swept into office after railing against the “Big Dig culture on Beacon Hill.” But it’s stunning to hear the governor say it in 2010, considering that less than a year ago his secretary of transportation was the guy who literally wrote the book on the Big Dig.

In 2004, James Aloisi published “The Big Dig: New England Remembers” after being involved in the project since its inception. Aloisi served as an assistant secretary of transportation under Gov. Michael Dukakis, general counsel for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and then as outside counsel to the Turnpike Authority.

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Gov. Deval Patrick’s transportation czar, Jim Aloisi, is under intense fire from angry commuters and taxpayers – and he may also have angered another potent group: Harvard University alums.

Aloisi’s bio, posted on state Web sites, lists him as having a “Master of Liberal Arts from Harvard University.” But he obtained his degree through the Harvard Extension School, an offshoot of the Ivy League college that has open enrollment and is widely viewed as a separate, less prestigious entity.

The discrepancy has caused similar headlines in the past, including in 2005, when teen pop star Hillary Duff claimed she was taking classes at Harvard but was actually at the Extension School.

Other pols are keenly wary of the difference. State Rep. Bradley H. Jones (R-N. Reading) lists on his bio that he received his degree from Harvard Extension School.

Aloisi’s spokesman, Colin Durrant, said of the flap: “I can confirm he did receive his master in liberal arts from the Extension School at Harvard University, so as far as the bio is concerned it

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James Aloisi

Lawyer and politician in Massachusetts, U. S.

James A. "Jim" Aloisi Jr. is a Boston-based writer, lawyer and consultant with a specialty in transportation planning and policy. Aloisi is secretary of Boston-based transit policy advocacy group TransitMatters and a lecturer at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.[2][3]

Aloisi was an assistant Massachusetts attorney general from 1978 to 1983.[4][5] He was chief of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue legal bureau from 1983 to 1987, then an assistant state transportation secretary from 1987 to 1989.[6][7][8] Aloisi was general counsel of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority from 1989 to 1996.[9][10] He was a partner at Hill & Barlow from 1996 to 2002, then moved to Goulston & Storrs in January 2003 when the former firm dissolved.[11] He was on the Emerson College board from 2007 to 2009.[12]

Aloisi was appointed to the Massachusetts Port Authority board by governor Deval Patrick in F

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