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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 26 June 2019

Feds: Texas family Official: Driver in motorcycle

ran $33M illegal wreck should’ve lost license

sports gambling outfit By MICHAEL CASEY

Associated Press
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Houston office in a state- CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The
Members of a southeast ment. head of the Massachusetts
Texas family acknowl- Larry Tillery faces up to motor vehicle division has
edged in federal court 10 years in federal prison, resigned for failing to termi-
Tuesday that they ran ille- while Judy and Brian Til- nate the commercial driv-
gal bookmaking from the lery face five years each in ing license of man whose
father’s used car dealer- prison. collision with a group of
ship for more than three de- No sentencing date has motorcyclists in New Hamp-
cades, an enterprise feder- been scheduled. shire left seven dead.
al authorities described as “I’m not a perfect man, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23,
one of the nation’s biggest made some mistakes. Stay on Tuesday pleaded not
illegal sports gambling and away from the casinos,” guilty to seven counts of
money laundering opera- Larry Tillery told KFDM-TV of negligent homicide.
tions. Beaumont . Massachusetts Department In this April 29, 2014, file photo, Erin Deveney, interim head of
Larry Earnest Tillery, his wife Tillery’s attorney, Chip Lew- of Transportation Secretary the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, speaks
Judy Kay Tillery and their is, said in a statement to and CEO Stephanie Pollack during a news conference in Boston.
son Brian Tillery pleaded KFDM that the family ap- said in a statement that the Associated Press
guilty in federal court in preciates support offered RMV failed to act on infor- Davis didn’t immediately on probation for one year
Beaumont, Texas, to charg- by people across southeast mation provided by the return calls seeking com- and had his license sus-
es arising from their illicit Texas. “Today is the last Connecticut Department ment. pended for 210 days, The
sports betting operation. step in Mr. Tillery’s efforts to of Motor Vehicles about The Dodge pickup Zhu- Westfield News reported.
Larry Tillery, 69, and Brian handle his business with the an incident involving Zhu- kovskyy was driving was Zhukovskyy’s father, who
Tilery, 46, pleaded guilty to IRS.” kovskyy that should have towing a flatbed trailer and goes by the same name,
making monetary transac- As part of their plea agree- cost him his license. As a re- collided with the motorcy- told the Boston Herald that
tions in property derived ments with prosecutors, sult, she accepted the res- cles in Randolph early Fri- his son is a Ukrainian nation-
from unlawful activity and Larry and Judy Tillery have ignation of Erin Deveney. day evening, investigators al and has permanent resi-
tax evasion. agreed to forfeit $1.7 mil- Connecticut prosecutors say. He was driving errati- dent status in the U.S. The
Judy Tillery, 62, pleaded lion in cash seized during said Zhukovskyy was ar- cally and crossed the cen- younger Zhukovskyy’s court
guilty to structuring finan- the investigation, numer- rested May 11 in a Walmart ter line, according to crimi- file includes a letter dated
cial transactions to evade ous pieces of jewelry and parking lot in East Windsor nal complaints released Sunday from a deportation
tax reporting requirements luxury watches and several after failing a sobriety test. Tuesday. officer from Immigration
Federal prosecutors say sports memorabilia items. Zhukovskyy’s lawyer in that A survivor of the crash said and Customs Enforcement
the Beaumont family’s op- They also have agreed to case, John O’Brien, said he the trailer wiped out most requesting details on his
eration handled almost $33 a money judgment for the denies being intoxicated of the bikers behind him. 2017 heroin and cocaine
million from 2010 through more-than-$32 million they and will fight the charge. Zhukovskyy was arrested convictions.
2016, with Judy Tillery help- collected in their opera- Zhukovskyy, a driver for a Monday morning at his Records from the Federal
ing her husband launder tion. transport company who home in Massachusetts Motor Carrier Safety Ad-
the cash proceeds of the “The Tillerys ignored state has a history of traffic ar- and handed over to New ministration indicate that
activity and Brian Tillery and federal gambling laws rests, was ordered Tuesday Hampshire authorities after the company Zhukovskyy
helping to collect from and and profited tremendously to remain in preventive de- a court appearance that was driving for at the time
pay the bettors. from a criminal enterprise. tention, with a judge say- day. of the motorcycle crash,
“For more than 30 years, We intend to collect every ing his driving record poses Jury selection is scheduled Westfield Transport, has
this family operated one bit of the money judgment a potential danger to the to begin Nov. 8, with the been cited for various viola-
of the largest illegal sports that will be issued against public and himself. trial running through De- tions in the past two years,
gambling and money laun- them and we expect Larry The plea was entered by cember. MassLive.com reported.
dering operations in the Tillery’s prison sentence to Zhukovskyy’s attorney Me- Zhukovskyy was also ar- Phones rang unanswered
U.S.” said Mary Magness, send a message to those lissa Davis in Coos County rested on a drunken driving at the company. The own-
assistant special agent in who profit from illegal Court in Lancaster, New charge in 2013 in Westfield, er has previously said he
charge of the Homeland bookmaking,” said U.S. At- Hampshire. Zhukovskyy re- Massachusetts, state re- was cooperating with the
Security Investigations torney Joseph Brown.q mains behind bars there. cords show. He was placed investigation. q