BOSTON A Merrimack, New Hampshire based company that provides liquidation for business furniture and equipment and its owner have pleaded guilty and been ordered to pay $180,000 in restitution for failing to pay employer contributions to the state’s unemployment insurance fund, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.
James Bucchianeri, age 67, of Derry, New Hampshire, president and owner of Global FF&E (aka Nationwide FF&E), pleaded guilty in Suffolk Superior Court March 31in a virtual hearing to the charge of Non-Payment of Employer Contribution (16 counts). Following the plea, Judge Debra Squires-Lee sentenced Bucchianeri to five years of probation and ordered him to complete 200 hours of community service and pay $180,000 in restitution to the state.
By Olivia Lemmon Worcester County PUBLISHED 6:15 PM ET Apr. 02, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:15 PM EDT Apr. 02, 2021
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WORCESTER COUNTY. Mass. - An inmate at the Worcester County House of Corrections is charged with running an unemployment fraud scheme from jail.
Four people are charged in the scheme.
The Attorney General s Office said Darnell Harris stole personal information of inmates and other people to get money from the Massachusetts’ Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program.
The Worcester County Sheriff s Special Services Unit discovered the scheme. We monitor everything that happens here on a daily basis. All the phone calls, all the mail, we keep a close tab on all things going on. One of our investigators started noticing odd pieces of mail. Some of the information that was in it caught their attention and as they sta
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Inside the Worcester County jail, it was a strange piece of returned mail that tipped investigators off to an unemployment fraud scheme, Sheriff Lew Evangelidis said.
The letter, intercepted by staff, was filled with personal information about inmates at the facility. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. It certainly made us think, Why would somebody be sending out all this personal information regarding somebody? Evangelidis recalled.
Members of the sheriff s Special Services Unit began investigating the case and soon discovered through recorded phone calls what authorities say was a scheme to use the personal identifying information of jail inmates and others to steal more than $77,000 from Massachusetts Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program.
Who is Alvin Campbell Jr?
Alvin Campbell Jr is the brother of Boston City council member Andrea Campbell. He was raised in a Black Christian family in Roxbury, often called the heart of Boston’s Black community, and the South End, along with Andrea and her twin brother Andre. The area, according to Paw, was a racially diverse but economically stratified neighborhood where Victorian rowhouses stand alongside public-housing projects.
Their mother was killed in a car accident while traveling to visit Campbell Jr’s father in prison when Andrea was just eight months old. Their father was serving eight years for firearms charges. Campbell Jr lived with his twin siblings and they spent their early childhood with a collection of foster parents and extended family, including a grandmother who struggled with alcoholism and an aunt and uncle who became parental figures. When their father came home from prison, the children went to live with him. While Andrea went to Princeton University,
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