Week in review
Legal trouble for area businesses
In the span of only a few days, a Worcester restaurant owner was charged with drug-dealing, a Framingham pharmacist was convicted for his role in a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people in nine states, and the former president of a Marlborough telecom company was sentenced on charges he ran a $3 billion pyramid scheme.
In the first case, Worcester resident Kevin Perry allegedly used more than $1 million in drug-sale money to buy and renovate nine properties in Worcester County, including The Usual on Shrewsbury Street and The Blackstone Tap on Water Street. The Framingham pharmacist, Barry Cadden, was found guilty of fraud and racketeering at New England Compounding Center, but was found not guilty of second-degree murder of those killed by drugs made by the facility. Lastly, James Merrill was sentenced to six years in prison for a pyramid scheme that affected 1.8 million, including 20,000 in Worcester alone.
New growth in Marlborough
Just about two miles from each other as the crow flies, the New England Sports Center in Marlborough is adding its seventh and eighth full-size rinks, capitalizing on growth not only in hockey but potentially curling and speed skating, too. On Route 20, the first phase of what will be a 114,000-square-foot office building has begun rising at the east end of the Apex Center of New England development.
Mass. added 10,000 jobs last month
Massachusetts added 10,100 jobs last month but its unemployment rate ticked slightly upward to 3.4 percent. That's still better than the national average of 4.7 percent. Rates for February for cities and towns will come out next week, but the Central Massachusetts labor area lagged behind the state a bit in January, at 4.2 percent unemployment.
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