The former Yale University women’s soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the scheme’s mastermind has been sentenced to five months in prison
Laws approved overwhelmingly by voters in Massachusetts and California regarding animal welfare standards could be nullified by a pending U.S. Supreme Court.
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CommonWealth Magazine reports a judge in Worcester Superior Court on Monday dismissed a suit by a bunch of Massachusetts Republicans, including two failed Congressional candidates, to overturn the November election results.
That election boat has sailed, the issues raised are pining for the fjords and the suit is moot, the judge ruled on the challenge, which the five GOPers brought after they initially filed in federal court, where a judge suggested the case belonged in state court.
But don t worry, Republican electoral drama fans: We still have Shiva Ayyadurai, who has not one, but two pro-se cases in federal court against the state for the way Secretary of State Bill Galvin and his allegedly evil minions conspired to make him lose, by allegedly destroying one million ballots and by getting Twitter to suspend his Twitter feed at critical points in the campaign. And he is now seeking to formally add Twitter as a defendant in one of the suits.
BOSTON – A Canton woman was ordered to spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to helping a Hingham man defraud two Texas companies of more than $600,000.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf sentenced Bintu Toure, 26,on Monday and ordered her to pay back $552,000 to seven individuals and companies. He ordered her to spend three years on probation after her release from federal prison.
Toure pleaded guilty in January to charges of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. She was part of a group that tricked two companies into sending them money for fake invoices for frozen chicken parts as they posed as the companies Brazilian suppliers.
Robert Bobby Donati.
Robert Bobby Donati was a small-time Revere businessman whose gambling debts led him to become a white-collar criminal and mob wannabe. His is a name often heard as one of the two thieves who pulled off the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990. He would have been around 50 years old at that time.
By 2013, the FBI asserted that the two men who were responsible for the theft were dead. But officials declined to identify the men or suggest what their motive might have been. The idea that Donati was one of those men began to gain credibility thanks to the word of former associates Myles Connor and Vincent Ferrara. This was in large part through two books: my book Master Thieves and Connor’s memoir The Art of The Heist. Both detail how getting Connor and Ferrara out of jail may have been the motive for the robbery.