The proprietor and operator of a sequence of Boston-area sober properties below the identify “A Vision From God” has been arrested and indicted on 37 fraud-related expenses.
Daniel Cleggett, 37, of Kingston, and Nicholas Espinosa, 37, of Randolph, have been arrested Tuesday morning, in line with federal courtroom data, in reference to an indictment charging them every with 21 counts of wire fraud, six counts of cash laundering, two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, one rely of mortgage fraud conspiracy, and one rely of constructing false statements to a mortgage-lending enterprise.
Cleggett — the proprietor of the enterprise, which he based in 2016, in line with the indictment — was individually charged with 4 counts of wire fraud and two counts of constructing false statements to a mortgage-lending enterprise.
U.S. District Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson launched the pair after they got here in for an preliminary look in federal courtroom in Boston.
A Vision From God LLC, which Espinosa runs, operates 9 separate sober properties with places in Boston, Weymouth and Quincy that go below variations of the identify Brady’s Place or Brady’s Retreat in a number of places in addition to below the names Lakeshore Retreat in Wakefield, Lambert House in Weymouth, and Seaver House in Boston, in line with a listing included within the indictment.
The fraud alleged within the indictment facilities on a conspiracy to defraud the New York-based household belief paying for a shopper’s keep on the location “Brady’s Place” in Quincy, typically to the tune of $12,500 per thirty days.
Another alleged fraud outlined within the indictment is that Cleggett bought three properties in Boston and between October 2019 to December 2021 that he falsely claimed on paperwork could be used as residential properties however have been really used as sober dwelling properties.
And, lastly, the indictment alleges that Cleggett dedicated billing fraud via his different companies — insulation contracting corporations Green Save Energy, Environmental Construction Objective, Green Giants, and Insulation Situation — that participated within the Mass Save Program.
In explicit, the indictment alleges that Cleggett via his Green Save Energy and Environmental Construction Objective corporations acquired tens of millions of {dollars} for residential insulation work from a lead vendor firm below the Mass Save program however that for years he billed that vendor for permits that have been by no means really obtained — which received the businesses kicked off the Mass Save Program.
So the feds say he began the later corporations below straw homeowners to rejoin this system and ultimately netted $954,443 in funds regardless of being banned from this system.
The expenses every carry most potential sentences of many years in jail, with the longest most being 30 years in jail for making false statements to a mortgage lending enterprise.
Judge Levenson scheduled the arraignment for June 7 at 11:30 a.m.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”