In late December 2023, Benjamin Botts, Office of the Solicitor for the US Department of Labor filed an complaint with the US District Court of Massachusetts on behalf of the Department against the 5 Starts Restaurant Group, doing business as Samba Steak and Sushi. Three charges are noted, count one, Violations of Sections 7 &

A FOIA request came in on March 26, 2024: From: Commonwealth Transparency<info@opencommonwealth.org>Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 5:01?PMSubject: Public records request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law M.G.L. c66, § 10To: Commonwealth Transparency <info@opencommonwealth.org> Greetings: This is a formal public records request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law M.G.L. c66, § 10: Please provide the following documents/records for your District for the time period February 1, 2024

Earlier this month, a Framingham realty business owner, via a plea agreement, she pled guilty to swindling the federal government out of $450,000 in pandemic relief funds. These funds were loans intended to fund payrolls and keep small businesses operational during the pandemic. Between April 2020 and November 2022, she filed multiple applications through various

The Citizen Participation Officer (CPO) proposed will be discussed and voted on by the city council over the next weeks. Nicole Horton, if accepted by council, will replace Heather Gutierrez who left her post at the end of 2023. She served in that role for under a year. The Citizen Participation Officer develops and implements

The owners of H&R Supply/H&R Roofing, have been indicted and arrested. Ronaldo Solano, 51, and Adriana Solano, 40 were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston with one count each of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud. They were arrested last Wednesday.

Sunwave Inc, seeks to open a restaurant in the site of the former Hot Breads on Worcester Road. Sunwave is the parent/corporation which owns and operates Street Kitchen, an Indian eatery, with a single location currently in Marlborough on Main Street. Sunwave is operated by Tarang Jain and Bhaskar Velamakanni. A Common Victualler (CV) license