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Insurance Fraud Case

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

6 Indicted for Roles in Allegedly Throwing Criminal Trial

Two Peabody residents are among the six charged with obstructing justice to obtain the acquittal of two defendants in an insurance fraud case.

Two Peabody residents were indicted Tuesday by a Suffolk County grand jury for their role in allegedly bribing witnesses to throw a criminal trial. David Forlizzi and Janet Vaccari, along with four others, will now face varying charges in Suffolk Superior Court of witness corruption, perjury, persuading another person to commit perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in order to obtain the acquittal of two defendants at a criminal trial for insurance fraud this past March. The Attorney General's office sought out those charges after each individual testified during the trial, contradicting their earlier statements to investigators and their own guilty pleas. “We allege that these defendants were involved in a scheme involving …

Friday, July 20, 2012

Five Arraigned for Trying to Rig Criminal Trial

Five people, including two Peabody residents, are accused of conspiring to get two defendants acquitted in a case of insurance fraud that involved those five and one other person.

Two Peabody residents were arrested and arraigned along with three others Thursday all on charges of obstructing justice and throwing a criminal trial. The Attorney General's office says charges of witness corruption, perjury, persuading another person to commit perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy were sought after each individual testified in a criminal trial for insurance fraud, but contradicted their earlier statements to investigators and their own guilty pleas. The AG's office says Peabody residents David Forlizzi, 52, and Janet Vaccari, 51, Deanna Pistone, 29, of Wakefield, William Penta, 49, of Salem, and Laura Battista, 63, of Revere, all conspired together to obtain the acquittal of two defendants in the March 2012 …

Real Talk

4:30 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012

Really Martha, because I have tried my hardest (well not good enough I guess) on perjury and falsifying a police report here in the city of Peabody, and your office kept sending me elsewhere! If I remember correctly your office sent me a letter saying they would keep it on file, to follow cases like the one that happened to my family! Now I see how the AG's office works it has to be big news with…   more ›

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