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Man who used plumbing business as front for marijuana grow gets 12 years Brad Petrishen, Telegram & Gazette © Rick Cinclair/Telegram & Gazette Staff WORCESTER - Thomas Laverty outside the Harold D. Donohue Federal Building during a break in his U.S. District Court trial in January 2020. WORCESTER — Thomas Laverty, the local plumber convicted last year of using his business as a front for a large marijuana grow while collecting public assistance, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday.  Laverty, 40, was convicted by a federal jury in Worcester last January on...

Mass. Plumber Gets 12 Years for Marijuana-Growing Operation The man used his plumbing business as a front for a large-scale, commercial marijuana cultivation and distribution operation, prosecutors say Published March 3, 2021 • Updated on March 3, 2021 at 12:40 pm A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for helping to run a large-scale marijuana growing operation that used his family’s plumbing business as a front. Federal prosecutors say 40-year-old Thomas Laverty, of Clinton, was also sentenced Tuesday to eight years of probation and ordered to pay $3,1...