(Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey) Peterson Oil Delivered Heating Oil with up to Eight Times the Allowed Biofuel A Worcester fuel company will pay $450,000 and improve its record-keeping processes to resolve allegations it knowingly provided state entities noncompliant heating oil in violation of its contracts with the state’s Operational Services Division, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.
The assurance of discontinuance, entered in Suffolk Superior Court, resolves allegations that Peterson Oil Service, Inc. (Peterson Oil) violated the Massachusetts False Claims Act when it entered into two statewide contracts, covering an eight-year period, with no intention of delivering compliant heating fuel. Instead, Peterson Oil regularly delivered fuel containing significantly more biodiesel by volume than the 5 percent allowed under the contracts.
A man from New Hampshire has been arrested and charged with trying to sell methamphetamine inside the Encore Boston Harbor casino resort in Everett, Ma.
A table game dealer at Encore Boston Harbor is ready to deal behind a plexiglass barrier. Police in Massachusetts say a man from New Hampshire tried to sell illegal drugs on the casino floor. (Image:
Boston Herald)
The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that Matthew Gorman, 32, has been indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury. The New Hampshire man was indicted on five counts related to possession of a large-capacity firearm, two counts of possession of a loaded firearm, and one count of possession with intent to distribute a Class B Substance.
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U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern speaks during a rally at Fish Park in Athol in advance of the November presidential election. STAFF FILE PHOTO/GREG VINE
Wendell State Forest Alliance members and supporters protest about logging in the Wendell State Forest before appearing in Franklin County Superior Court to outline their case against the state Department of Conservation and Recreation in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/DAN LITTLE
U.S. census worker Elaine Arsenault, left, and state Reps. Paul Mark, D-Peru, and Natalie Blais, D-Sunderland, speak at a Census 2020 informational event at the Senior Center in Shelburne Falls. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today released a scathing report that sharply faults the Bristol County Sheriff s Office for its part in a violent May 1 clash between immigrant detainees at the North Dartmouth ICE detention facility and agents of the law who answer to Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.
The Bristol County Sheriff s Office used excessive force and acted with “deliberate indifference, thereby violating the civil rights of immigrant detainees housed in Unit B of the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center, Healey s office said.
The AG s 60-page investigatory report describes “institutional failures and poor decisions” by leadership at the sheriff s office that culminated in a “calculated use of force” that “unnecessarily caused or risked harm to everyone involved.