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eBay To Pay $3M After Ex-Employees Put Mass Couple Through 'Pure Hell': Feds eBay To Pay $3M After Ex-Employees Put Mass Couple Through 'Pure Hell': Feds
eBay To Pay $3M After Ex-Employees Put Mass Couple Through 'Pure Hell': Feds eBay has agreed to pay $3 million in criminal penalties after several former employees targeted a Middlesex County couple in a campaign of harassment that included sending live cockroaches and funeral wreaths to their home in Natick, federal authorities said.  Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy said the employee's actions put the couple through "pure hell" and said eBay's conduct was "absolutely horrific." eBay engaged in absolutely horrific, criminal conduct. The company’s employees and contractors involved in this campaign put the victims through pure hell, in a petrifying …

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by Josh Lanier
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Gilgo Four: New England Resident Among Women At Heart Of NY Serial Murder Case Gilgo Four: New England Resident Among Women At Heart Of NY Serial Murder Case
Gilgo Four: New England Resident Among Women At Heart Of NY Serial Murder Case They're known as the Gilgo Four. The women, all in their 20s, are at the heart of the Long Island serial murder case that has captured national and global attention following the arrest of suspect Rex Heuermann just over a week ago. The 59-year-old married father of two, an architect who worked on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and resided in Nassau County in the village of Massapequa Park just miles north of the site where their bodies were found -- in a grassy area of Gilgo Beach, a barrier island off Long Island's south shore in the Suffolk County town of Babylon. Heuermann was arraigned on…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Massachusetts Man Admits To Purchasing MBTA Passes Using Others' Identities Massachusetts Man Admits To Purchasing MBTA Passes Using Others' Identities
Massachusetts Man Admits To Purchasing MBTA Passes Using Others' Identities A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with using stolen identities to fraudulently purchase more than $150,000 in MBTA passes. Kokou Kuakumensah, age 31, of Worcester, pleaded guilty on Thursday, July 22, to one count of wire fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft, said the U.S. Attorney's Office. Between January 2019 and March 2020, Kuakumensah used other individuals’ credit card accounts to fraudulently purchase Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail passes, officials said. Kuakumen…

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by Kathy Reakes
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COVID-19: Drivers Willing To Pay Seniors $275, $100 To Cut Vaccine Line Via 'Companion' Clause COVID-19: Drivers Willing To Pay Seniors $275, $100 To Cut Vaccine Line Via 'Companion' Clause
Covid-19: Drivers Willing To Pay Seniors $275, $100 To Cut Vaccine Line Via 'Companion' Clause People seeking to get the COVID-19 vaccine early are looking to make quick friends with people ages 75 and up according to recently spotted Craigslist ads. As of Thursday, Feb. 12, people who accompany Massachusetts residents ages 75 and older to get their COVID-19 vaccinations can also be vaccinated at the same time. Lawmakers are scrambling to close this loophole, according to the Boston Globe. Some people are using this companion clause as an opportunity to skip ahead in the vaccination line.  The COVID-19 vaccine is being doled out in several phases with medical frontline worker…

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by Kristin Palpini