Have you ever heard the saying “the lunatics are running the asylum”? We begin the week with a story about an interesting twist on it. It was last night. Sunday night. All around the Commonwealth, people were preparing for a new week of work and school. The clock struck 9:30pm.…
According to this week’s Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, the Commonwealth is having a tough time with certain …irregularities… regarding Probate Court staff. A few weeks ago, Middlesex County’s Register of Probate was arrested for allegedly stealing cash from government copying machines. This week, in Suffolk County, a state auditor’s report is…
The Brookline Tab has reported that former Brookline resident Carolyn Kravetz has been indicted in federal court for acts of mail fraud and tax fraud. Her co-defendant, Boris Levitin, hailing from Brighton, merely faces charges of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors claim that a Ms. Kravetz, a communications director for Dunkin’…
At Boston’s John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey spoke about the identity theft scam involving over 41 million stolen and sold debit and credit card numbers that bilked individuals and companies of hundreds of millions of dollars. Mukasey called the scheme the “largest and most complex…
In Massachusetts, a personal care aid pleaded not guilty to over 24 charges related to the theft and use of a debit card meant for a legally blind and deaf teenaged girl. Kerri A. Ryan is accused of using the card between January and April of this year to get…
Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. announced this week that two former Tufts University workers have been indicted for stealing almost $1 million from the school. The indictments accuse Josephine Nealley, the former director of the student activities office, and Raymond Rodriguez, the office budget and fiscal coordinator, of…
Heather Lyn Johnston and Ashley Nicole Miller, the women who were arrested after robbing a Bank of America branch at a Kroger grocery store in Georgia last year, received their sentences today. Miller, 19, was ordered to serve 2 years of her 10 year prison sentence, while the remainder must…
A Hull, Massachusetts man was arrested on five counts of larceny and securities fraud. According to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, Jeffrey Gruber, 44, misrepresented himself as a stockbroker and certified financial planner from October 2005 until March 2006. He gave a “client” advice about stocks, bonds, a real estate…
Actress Bai Ling was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly shoplifting a pack of batteries and two magazines, valued at $16, from a gift shop at the Los Angeles International Airport. She was apprehended after someone else in the store reported seeing her take the items. The Chinese-born actress admitted to…
The criminal defense team for Officer Michael T. Jones, the Boston Police Department veteran, says that his client was not taking his medication and was drunk when he used his BPD-issued weapon to hold up a gas station in Roslindale, Massachusetts. Officer Jones, 44, was arraigned on armed robbery charges…