Remember when we broke the story of The Rockland Trust robbery a few weeks back with some hard hitting investigative journalism? Well the police have released video of the suspect and are asking for help identifying the man responsible. Here is the video:

The big question after watching this is what the hell is going on at this Rockland Trust? The place looks like a landscaping shop or something. What does a bank need a fork lift for? Is that a lawn mower in the left hand corner? How did some dude with no tools break into a bank? Was it even locked?

Anyway, if you know anyone that looks like this guy you should definitely report it. I am sure that narrowing the search down to a guy with a beard in a hoodie means it could only be every single person you know on Cape Cod. Should be a slam dunk!

BostonGlobe.com – State Representative Michael Costello told a federal jury Monday that he sought the help of House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi’s office to lobby the Probation Department for a job for a family friend.

Costello said he had met John J. O’Brien, the probation commissioner, but did not know him well enough at the time, around 2006, and when it came to recommending the friend for a job, “I would try to go up the ladder.”

O’Brien, who was commissioner from 1998 to 2010, and his top deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke III, face charges including racketeering and mail fraud, for allegedly running their department like a criminal enterprise.

Prosecutors say they favored job candidates who were sponsored by state legislators over more qualified candidates. In exchange, the prosecutors say, the legislators routinely boosted the Probation Department’s budget, helping O’Brien build his political clout.

Prosecutors called the jobs “political currency” and say O’Brien and his deputies committed fraud by creating a scheme to shield the bogus hiring from the judges who oversaw appointments.

Remember Michael Costello? He is the shady state rep form Newburyport that tried to sneak legislation into the state budget that would kill a Mashpee oyster farm. It was later shown that he did it because he was paid by a bunch of uber wealthy summer residents that didn’t want a townie ruining their view.

Well, he is back in the news and this time it may be even shadier. It looks like he was part of an old boy network that traded jobs for his friends for budget increases in the department they were hired. So basically he was bribing officials to get his friends jobs… with our fucking money, taxpayer money.

How is this guy testifying with immunity? He misappropriated taxpayer money for his own gain, why is that something that he should get immunity for? Seems to me that is about as egregious as you can get. Even worse than taking money from someone in a district 100 miles away from yours and camouflaging legislation in order to hide it from your fellow state reps that actually represent that area.

What more does this dude have to do in order to have some repercussions? I think he must have nude pics of Deval’s wife or something.

CapeCodOnline.com – On Flag Day about 10 seniors sat around a piano while Brianna LePage, a music therapist at The Gathering Place in Eastham, played patriotic tunes.

Some of them suffer from dementia and other cognitive impairments that make it difficult to recall even relatives’ names. But they knew the words to the songs from their childhoods, LePage said.

Music lives in a part of the mind that isn’t easily destroyed by dementia, said LePage, who studied music therapy at the Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Provincetown High School.

“It’s one of the final areas of the brain to go,” she said. “Music stays with us for our whole lives.”

After college, LePage headed to the Bronx for an internship at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, which is run by the renowned music therapist Dr. Concetta Tomaino and the famed neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of “Musicophilia,” and “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.”

Sacks and Tomaino taught her a great deal, said LePage, who, in addition to singing, plays piano and guitar.

But she learned the most about music therapy from her next job, working with a 94-year-old patient at the Kings Harbor Multicare Center in the Bronx.

“This woman was totally isolated and alone, but I gravitated toward her,” LePage said. “I tried guitar, I tried piano and it just didn’t work.”

But LePage kept trying and then the woman began to recognize her from across the room. She opened up, and regained as much function as she had when she first entered Kings Harbor, LePage said. Although her mind was compromised, her spirit rebounded.

Is it coincidence that this came across the wire just hours after announcing the festival? I doubt it, so I figured we’d share this with you and let you know that when you get old and you can’t remember your relatives names the only thing you’ll have left is music. Just a little something to think about as you contemplate whether or not to go to The Real Cape Music Festival.

Stay home if you want, but don’t come crying to us when your mind is an empty void while all of your roommates at the retirement home are jamming out to all the tunes they remember from years gone by. It’s probably why The Fun Police get so pissy as they get older. They are going crazy from lack of musical exposure. Don’t let it be you!

P.S. If you didn’t chuckle at the fact renowned neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks named one of his books “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” then we probably wouldn’t be friends.