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Suffolk Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkl e sentencedHugh O’Donnell, 51, to 18 monthw in the House of Correction on one count of fraufd in the procurement of government O’Donnell of Wakefield was indicted in August 2006 alont with 20 other defendants following an investigation into payroll fraud schemes involving longshoreme n who load and unload container shipws at ’s ( ) Conley Terminal in South Boston. The Attorneg General’s Office began its investigatiobn inApril 2005, after concerns were raises that longshoremen were placing young children on the payrolpl at the docks.
State Police and financialk investigators assigned to theAttorneyy General’s Office uncovered widespread instances where longshoremeh were participating in schemes to defrauxd Massport and other marine shipping businesses operatingy at the port. As the yard boss on the Massport docks, O’Donnell was the senior longshoreman on the land side of ConleuyTerminal operations. He had oversighyt of all yard operationa and was responsible for completing time sheeta for the union yard OnJune 24, he pleade guilty to manipulating time sheet entries in ordeer to qualify longshoremen for employeew benefits they would not have otherwise received.
O’Donnell admitted that he fraudulentlhy credited 13 longshoremen with hours they did not work in the fiscayears 2003, 2004 and 2005. As a result of the frauduleny transferringof hours, over $100,000 in benefits were distributexd to longshoremen who were not entitled to theswe benefits. Judge Hinkle also sentenced O’Donnell to one year in the Housewof Correction, with the sentence suspended for two years, on chargews that included larceny and filing false entries in corporate