Dave Nangle reflects on career, reputation lost to gambling addiction

Dave Nangle reflects on career, reputation lost to gambling addiction

BOSTON — When he was 17 years old, David Nangle found himself $800 in debt to a bookie. Reflecting on the situation as a 64-year-old, the former representative wishes he had not managed to get out of that jam. “Well, didn’t smarten me up. I was able to bail out of it, as we say, and I got through that. But I just wish I could go back in time to that time and have changed my life at that point, but I didn’t,” he said Wednesday. “I just couldn’t s…