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WORCESTER A former Millbury woman who played a minor role in a scheme in which her husband and son used their plumbing business as a front for a large marijuana grow avoided a jail sentence Wednesday in federal court.
Andrea Laverty, 64, whose son Thomas Laverty was sentenced to 12 years in connection with the crime Tuesday, was ordered to serve one year of home confinement after she apologized and noted she will now be the prime caretaker for her grandson.
“I understand my actions were wrong,” she told Judge Timothy S. Hillman in U.S. District Court in Worcester, where both her son and husband had fought the charges.
Boston – A former employee of a family-owned plumbing business in Millbury was sentenced today for drug, money laundering and fraud convictions arising from his role in a large-scale marijuana grow operation.
Thomas Laverty of Clinton, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 12 years in prison, eight years of supervised release and ordered to pay $3,100 in restitution. In January 2020, Laverty was convicted following a five-day trial of conspiring to cultivate more than 100 marijuana plants, conspiracy to launder money, cultivating marijuana and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, and later pleaded guilty to and additional charge of theft of government funds.
Andrea Laverty sentenced to home confinement in marijuana case where Millbury plumbing company was used as front for grow operation
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
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A 64-year-old former Millbury woman, who was involved in a marijuana grow operation where the family’s plumbing company was used as a front, was sentenced Wednesday to home confinement.
Andrea Laverty, who now lives in Texas, was sentenced in federal court in Worcester to one year of supervised released under home confinement, according to court records.
She previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to cultivate marijuana and conspiring to launder money. Her defense lawyer said in court records that Andrea Laverty will be able to raise her grandson after his father and Andrea Laverty’s son, Thomas Laverty, was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison earlier this week in the same case.