Charley on the MTA dissects the Boston Foundation report claiming our local teachers make too much and that their pay should be tied to student performance. Also, the Globe needs to stop acting as stenographer to the foundation.

Boston Police report the arrest of Lavonrence Perkins, 20, for the shooting death of Cordell McAfee on May 10.

Police say Perkins was hiding out in Providence, and was arrested with the help of Rhode Island State Police and the US Marshal's office.

McAfee was found with multiple gunshot wounds at Dorchester Avenue and Roseland Street on the evening of May 7.

McAfee was the state's star witness in the first case against gang members for the shocking death of 10-year-old Trina Persad in 2002. At trial, McAfee, himself only 15 at the time of her death, testified he and other members of his gang went in search of some rival gang members to avenge a shooting attempt. McAfee testified that when they found them on a Roxbury basketball court, a member of his gang opened fire with a shotgun - hitting Trina instead.

Innocent, etc.

Andre Junior Lamerique, 26, earned a five-year federal prison sentence today for his part in an effort to wring more than $10 million out of lenders in bogus transactions on properties across Boston, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.

Lamerique is the ninth of eleven people charged in the case to either plead or be found guilty. Lamerique pleaded guilty last year to 33 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.

Federal prosecutors charged the eleven recruited "straw" buyers for whom they submitted inflated mortgage bids to mostly out-of-state lenders. The buyers got a fee, then disappeared, leaving the lenders holding properties not worth what they'd just spent for them. Lamerique's role was to recruit the phony buyers and to file the bogus applications for them.

• The indictment against Lamerique and the others

Also see:
Framingham lawyer charged with role in alleged Dorchester condo-flipping scheme.