On Thursday, February 25, from 6 to 8 PM, UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts will present an artistic collaboration between New Bedford-based 3rd EyE Youth Empowerment and
At the beginning of the pandemic and over 1,000 miles from New Bedford, Britt St. George and Madison Lees quarantined in Florida with their father, John Lees, founder of Mar-Lees Seafood and current president of New England Marine; their mother; and their significant others, Zack St. George and Edward Smith.
It was a time in which scallops were a part of nearly every conversation, Madison Lees said, and not just because their father is in the business. It was because the family business was growing.
Zack St. George and Smith are the guys behind The Scallop Guys, a new direct-to-consumer business selling scallops caught by Lees five New Bedford-based vessels.
New Bedford Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Nearly $600K
BOSTON The former bookkeeper of a New Bedford-based seafood company has been charged in federal court and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with embezzling nearly $600,000 from her employer.
Kara Howland, 37, of New Bedford, was charged with bank fraud and filing a false tax return. Under the terms of the plea agreement, the parties have agreed to a sentence, subject to the Court’s approval, of 18 to 36 months in prison, a fine and restitution. A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled by the Court.
According to court documents, between January 2016 and December 2019, Howland embezzled $598,241 from her employer by writing checks from her employer’s bank accounts to pay her credit card bills. Howland altered the company’s internal accounting records to make it appear that the checks were paid to legitimate vendors. Additionally, Howland did not report or include the funds that she embezzled on her feder