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Boston – A former attorney was sentenced today in connection with a long-running scheme to embezzle funds from trusts for which he served as trustee. Kevin M. Brill of Newton, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Mark L. Wolf to two years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $15,000. Brill was also ordered to pay restitution of $381,662 to the victims and $169,000 to the IRS. On Jan. 11, 2021, Brill pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns. From 2012 to July 2017, Brill served as a trustee for three family trusts wit...

FROM NEWS REPORTS A Canton woman was sentenced April 16 in federal court in Boston in connection with a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. Bintu Toure, 26, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf to one year and one day in prison, three years of supervised release, restitution and forfeiture. In January 2021, Toure pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Toure conspired with others to open numerous bank accounts in Massachusetts in the name of sham companies, as part of a BEC scheme—a sophisticated scam often targeting businesses involved in...

An MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty last Friday in federal court for his involvement in the 2018 murder of a teenage boy in Lynn. Eliseo VaqueranoCanas, a/k/a “Peligroso,” 21, an El Salvador national, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges more commonly known as RICO. As part of Canas’s guilty plea the reputed gang member admitted his involvement in the July 30, 2018 murder of a 17-year-old boy in Lynn.  MS-13 is a notorious street gang operating in Massachusetts and numerous other states, as well as countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. MS-13 members follow...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador pleaded guilty last week to murdering a 17-year-old three years ago at a playground in a community about 13 miles north of Boston, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a statement Tuesday. Eliseo Vaquerano Canas, a 21-year-old national of El Salvador nicknamed "Peligroso," the Spanish word meaning dangerous, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, which is more commonly ...

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP asked a federal judge Wednesday to hold off on ordering the firm to pay out a $1.1 million chunk of its fee for work on a years-old $300 million settlement with State Street Corp. so it can ask the First Circuit whether the repayment is justified.