PROVIDENCE — Dozens of people lined up outside Courtroom 14 at the Licht Judicial Complex Tuesday for their moment before the judge overseeing court fees, fines and restitution.
Superior Court Judge Maureen B. Keough asked about their substance abuse treatment, jobs, lives and urged a middle-aged man to pay up so he can leave his monthly courthouse visits behind.
One visitor stood out, not only for the sheer amount of restitution he owes — just shy of $12 million — but for the scope of his misdeeds: One out of every three Rhode Islanders was hurt by his thievery at the time of his crimes.
Once a year, once-fugitive banker Joseph Mollicone Jr. checks in with the court for a restitution review — a requirement that was waived in 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic, because he makes his monthly payments so reliably, according to Craig N. Berke, spokesman for the judiciary.
“It’s my responsibility,” Mollicone,78, said Tuesday before his court appearance. “I accept that. I keep up with my payments.” more here
Mr. Positive. His glass seems to be continually half full.
If this cheapskate embezzler were to pay off a million bucks at $270 a month it would take him nearly 3,704 months and that doesn’t include any interest. Good luck trying to get any money back from this bastard, it ain’t gonna happen.
That would be nearly 309 years which would be the year 2430 or 2431.
2330 or 2331, I added it wrong but that still be a hell of a long time to pay off a debt.
He ain’t payin off shit … must be a Demonrat.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I looted WAY more than THAT, and I ain’t paying back NOTHING!
Some palms got greased. RI is notoriously corrupt. Scum like this always rathole some assets. People that could find them are looking the other way.
Hey! I want to just borrow 12m$ at $270 a month.
Wait til those balloon payments kick in. What?
break his fuckin’ legs
Makes a monthly payments so reliable, well yah he embezzled 12 mill. Just where did it go? No your honor, it’s all gone. I don’t believe it for one second. Someone like this should not be out & about in his lifetime.