Posted on 10/07/2010 10:45:39 AM PDT by ecsmceo
As Patrice Eremian was planning a wedding to the North Shore's new congressman in 1997, her younger bother, Robert Eremian, was busy defending himself against allegations of operating an illegal gambling business, money laundering and tax evasion.
It wasn't Eremeian's first brush with the law, nor would it be his last.
Ultimately, he would plead guilty in 2002 to just one count of tax evasion, spend two years on probation and pay nearly $60,000 in restitution and more than $458,000 in back taxes.
Shortly afterward, he got permission from the court to leave the country. While his sister and her husband, Congressman John Tierney, say now that they believed that what Eremian was doing was simply working as a consultant, prosecutors say that Eremian had already moved a "large-scale illegal gambling business" to St. John's, Antigua, in 1996.
And in August, Eremian was indicted again, charged with racketeering, along with his brother Daniel and two other associates, Todd Lyons of Beverly and Richard Sullivan of Marblehead.
They became the first people in Massachusetts and some of the first people anywhere in the country to be charged under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Prosecutors say Eremian employed dozens of "agents" in the United States to find customers and collect their gambling debts.
They say he disguised the source of the money through a series of schemes and shell corporations.
Robert Eremian is now a fugitive, and his whereabouts are unknown.
(Excerpt) Read more at newburyportnews.com ...
Have they checked NH where all the real Massholes go?
So his brother-in-law is an outlaw...........So’s mine...........
Have there been any polls on the Tierney versus Hudak race?
http://www.hudakforcongress.com/all-americans
Has the NRA endorsed this Democrat POS yet? What are they waiting for?
Seems that there is only one degree of separation between most Rats and criminals. Plus they must be declared stupid for not knowing what their own wifey is doing.
Hudak & Tierney debate tonight!
Will Tierney do a Barney and do a no show?
And poor widdle Johnnie had no idea of what his wifey was up to.
Imagine the hue and cry if he had been a Republican.
Was Nick Mavroulas, form Peabody, Tierney’s predecessor? He also, as I recall, caught up in a financial scandal.
Mavroules pleaded guilty to fifteen counts in April 1993 and was sentenced to a fifteen-month prison term.
I think Nicky Pockets was succeeded by one term GOPer Peter Thorkildsen, who at least had the all-important North Shore Norwegian community sewed up.
Supp. Tierney leads by 7 points or so but who knows. This incident and vigorous campaigning by Bill may carry him to
victory.
Acc to the Herald, as of Herald cash on hand:
Hudak-R $92k
Tierney—incumbent D $1.5 million
yes Nicky Pockets whose code word for bribes was “bottle of wine” (as in, do you have the five bottles of wine? =
$5,000). Howie Carr would play “Bottle of Wine” by the
Fireballs on his show.
I think Mavroules served time in Danbury CT? Now dead.
He “brought home the bacon/pork”—money from being on
Armed Service Cmte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mavroules
>>He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992, losing to Peter Torkildsen. He served on the House Armed Services Committee.
Torky may have won twice, in ‘92 and ‘94. Tierney won in
‘96 by about 300 votes.
>>Mavroules was voted out of office in 1992, the year he was indicted on seventeen counts of corruption amid a federal investigation into alleged misuse of his office for private gain. Allegations included extortion, accepting illegal gifts and failing to report them on congressional disclosure and income tax forms.
Mavroules pleaded guilty to fifteen counts in April 1993 and was sentenced to a fifteen-month prison term.
Torky:
>>He then went on to represent Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district as a Republican for two terms, from 1993 until 1997...He was narrowly defeated in the Presidential-year elections of 1996 by Democrat John F. Tierney in a state that voted overwhelmingly for Democratic President Bill Clinton in that year’s Presidential election.
“Will Tierney do a Barney and do a no show?”
I thought you were going to say “blow town” ...
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