MASSACHUSETTS – Last week, more than $1 million of cash, in small bundles, was found in safe deposit boxes belonging to a disgraced former Massachusetts state representative.
At least $750,000 in cash wasn't found in shoe boxes in a Springfield hotel, like the late Secretary of State Paul Powell's was in 1970. Another cache of $50,000 was found in Powell's state office. His estate was finally found two years later to have a cash value of more than $3 million, plus 61,290 shares of stock in seven Illinois racetracks.
Former Dartmouth, Massachusetts lawmaker John George, 68, has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for embezzling almost $700,000 from his taxpayer-subsidized bus company to bankroll his farm. George was convicted and sentenced to 70 months in prison.
George's sentence also required him to pay $688,772 in restitution and forfeit $1.38 million to the federal government. Following that judgment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and U.S. Marshals obtained warrants for George's safe deposit boxes.
