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The 65-year-old owner of a payroll firm, previously accused of stealing from businesses in Haverhill and Danvers, was charged in federal court and agreed to plead guilty to defrauding clients by diverting money set aside by her clients for payroll taxes.
Patricia Lindau, of Newburg, Maine, who operated Northeast Abacus of Newburyport until recently, was charged and has agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion. According to the plea agreement filed Monday, the government will recommend a sentence of incarceration at the low end of the guidelines sentencing range, one year of supervised release and restitution of $1,393,430. A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled.
Upcoming retirements mean major changes in the leadership of Haverhill’s public safety departments.
Two recruitment efforts are already underway in City Hall to replace Fire Chief William F. Laliberty and Deputy Police Chief Anthony L. Haugh. Both men retire this month after decades of service. Mayor James J. Fiorentini says he is also looking ahead to the retirement of Police Chief Alan R. DeNaro.
“DeNaro has already told us he is nearing retirement age. He is going to be retiring shortly so we want to have some continuity in the department,” he said.
As WHAV reported first last November, Laliberty is retiring after 34 years as a Haverhill firefighter and four and a half years as chief. Similarly, Haugh retires after serving on the police force 33 years the last five as deputy.
The Haverhill veterans’ clinic begins moving next week to a new city location on Summer Street, while plans take shape for expanded services this summer. VA Bedford Healthcare System’s Haverhill Community Based Outreach Clinic moves to 209 Summer St. Monday, Feb. 1. In the first phase, primary care moves to the front-facing space. Veterans with […]
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A 30-year-old Methuen man was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison last Thursday after being convicted of possessing controlled substances with intent to distribute.
New Hampshire U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray said Alberto Rosario was found with fentanyl, crack cocaine, and $800 while he was a passenger in a car pulled over by Nashua, N.H., Police June 6, 2018. Police believed the car was involved in drug trafficking. Murray’s office said Rosario was a passenger in the vehicle. The driver later admitted to driving Rosario from Lowell to Nashua and acknowledged that Rosario was distributing drugs.
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Four-year-old Maggie Gibson is so proud of her papa Rob Durham’s volunteer work at Sacred Hearts Food Pantry, she wants people to donate food to the pantry instead of giving her gifts for her fifth birthday.
Maggie heard about the long lines of people waiting for food and she has also been able to help bring food to people who didn t have a way of getting to the pantry. She asks the public to bring nonperishable food Saturday, Feb. 6, between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., to Sacred Hearts Food Pantry, 48 S. Chestnut St., Bradford.