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WORCESTER A federal judge has ordered Joseph Herman to pay back $200,000, part of the amount he and other defendants laundered through a local restaurant as part of a drug money scheme, court records show.
In an order filed in U.S. District Court in Worcester last week, District Judge Timothy Hillman wrote “at least” that amount was laundered through The Usual, later renamed The Chameleon, a restaurant on Shrewsbury Street, which Herman managed.
The establishment was owned by convicted drug dealer Kevin Perry Jr., whose wife, Stacey Gala, was also involved; authorities say Herman and Gala conspired to use laundered money from Perry’s fentanyl sales to reopen the restaurant as The Chameleon in 2017.