A group of charities that have waited for more than six years to receive funds pilfered from the estate of a Barrington man by a disgraced state legislator will soon receive the last of their …
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A group of charities that have waited for more than six years to receive funds pilfered from the estate of a Barrington man by a disgraced state legislator will soon receive the last of their payments.
Former state Rep. Raymond Gallison of Bristol, who began a 51-month prison term in federal prison last year, stole more than $686,000 from the estate of Ray Medley, a friend and client who died in February 2012. Mr. Medley had made Mr. Gallison, an attorney, the executor of his will, but after an investigation Mr. Gallison pleaded guilty in federal court last March to nine fraud and theft-related counts, admitting that he failed to pay those noted in Mr. Medley’s will and instead stole $686,857 from the estate. He also pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $9,000 from a trust fund set up for the care of a disabled person, and lied to the IRS about how a nonprofit educational foundation he ran used taxpayer funds.
Tucker Wright, a Warren attorney appointed as executor of Mr Medley’s estate following Mr. Gallison’s arrest, said Friday that he will send checks totaling some $400,000 to the charities within a month or so. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have already been released to the charities in two earlier rounds of payments.
“This will be the third and final disbursement,” Mr. Wright said.
The charities named by Mr. Medley were all slated to receive from 10 to 20 percent of his estate. They include the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island (Masons), United Methodist Church in Warren, Massasoit Historical Association in Warren, St. John’s Masonic Lodge in Portsmouth, Colonial Williamsburg, Old Sturbridge Village, the National Kidney Foundation, the now-defunct Povar Animal Hospital and a fireworks foundation.
Mr. Gallison was sentenced last June to 51 months in federal prison and began his sentence at minimum security Fort Devens in Ayer, Mass., last July. Under federal sentencing laws, he is required to serve 85 percent of his sentence, meaning the earliest he will be eligible for release is early 2021.
Following his release, he will be put on three years of supervised parole.