Crime & Safety
Salem Man Faces 30 Counts for Unemployment Fraud
A Salem resident and excavator has pleaded not guilty to allegedly tricking the unemployment system into giving him $16K in benefits.

A Salem resident and excavator has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges in connection to allegedly tricking the Massachusetts unemployment system into giving him $16,000 in benefits, according to the Eagle-Tribune.
Kenneth LaMarche, 44, faces up to five years in state prison on each of the 28 counts of unemployment fraud and two counts of larceny on which he's been indicted, according to the Eagle-Tribune.
The paper has reported that LaMarche received benefits for 28 weeks between 2010 and 2011 while earning more than $38,000 from Greener Excavating LLC and T-Buck Construction.
[Read the full Eagle-Tribune story here.]
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