Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that Jason H. Hadley (age 35), with a last known address of 5 Mill Street Putnam, CT pled nolo contendere today before Providence Superior Court Special Magistrate Patrick T. Burke to one count of obtaining money under false pretenses for collecting more than $38,000 in Unemployment Insurance benefits while he was employed by R.P. Iannucillo & Sons, Inc., in Providence.
Hadley was sentenced to a seven year sentence, suspended with probation, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $38,287 to the State of Rhode Island.
Had the case proceeded to trial, the State was prepared to prove that between December 13, 2008 and July 13, 2013, Hadley failed to report his weekly earnings to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT) when he called into the DLT Teleserve voice response system to authorize his weekly unemployment benefits.
Hadley was one of 18 individuals arrested in October 2014 by the Rhode Island State Police in October for unemployment insurance benefit fraud. The restitution ordered by the Court is the largest amount ordered since the initiation of the partnership between the Office of Attorney General and DLT.
"There is no question that this collaborative effort between my office, DLT and the Rhode Island State Police is paying dividends - restoring monies stolen by the defendants and restoring integrity to the unemployment insurance benefits system," said Attorney General Peter Kilmartin.
The investigation was led by Detective David M. Gormly, of the Rhode Island State Police Auto Theft and Insurance Fraud Unit. Special Assistant Attorney General Genevieve Allaire Johnson prosecuted both cases on behalf of the Office of Attorney General and the State of Rhode Island. Funded by RI DLT, Allaire Johnson prosecutes all unemployment insurance fraud, worker's compensation fraud, prevailing wage violations and labor standards fraud cases.