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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.
Thomas Laverty sentenced to 12 years in prison for role in using Massachusetts plumbing business as front for marijuana grow operation
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
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A 40-year-old Clinton man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted last year of conspiring to cultivate more than 100 marijuana plants, using a family business as a front, authorities said.
Thomas Laverty, a former employee of the Chuck Laverty & Son Inc. plumbing business in Millbury, was sentenced by Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Hillman to the 12 years in prison and 8 years of supervised release. He was ordered to pay $3,100 in restitution, according to the office of Acting United States Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendell.
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 $3,100 in restitution. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.