Former city official John M. Lynch on Friday pleaded guilty to accepting $50,000 in bribes in an attempt to use his position to convince a member of Boston’s Zoning Board to vote in a way that would boost the profits of an unnamed real-estate developer in a property sale, federal prosecutors said.
Dustin Chao, the assistant U.S. Attorney for the Massachusetts District, filed the federal suit against Lynch, who worked as the assistant director of real estate at Boston’s Economic Development Industrial…
