son, Gregory, 28, with proceeds from a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme involving their company, Viking Financial. Viking was organized in 2007 in an office over the iScream Works ice-cream shop that Steven Palladino, a repeatedly convicted thief, cofounded in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.
Monday, Steven Palladino, 55, was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on charges from an 11-count indictment including larceny and false bookkeeping. Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Goldberger told Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson that the investigation remains open, and I expect additional cha
ternational travels and that they had family members passports stacked on their kitchen table as if to be ready for an imminent departure when detectives executed a search warrant at the familys Lyall Street home in West Roxbury, Wilson granted the governments request that Steven Palladino be held on
He is not a flight risk, and he is certainly not a danger to the community, Prince said, adding that Steven Palladino has a long record of supporting West Roxbury civic causes and a little league team and charities including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Franciscan Childrens Home. You can
Before his wife and son set up Viking Financial a company in which Steven Palladino at times, prosecutors said, described himself as president or vice president or CEO Steven Palladino had been convicted of larceny two dozens times in Norfolk and Suffolk Superior Court, according to the DAs off
In 2010, prosecutors said, Steven Palladino used nearly $350,000 from a Viking account to buy a cashiers check to pay off a mortgage and return property to his 94-year-old aunt he was alleged to have fraudulently persuaded her to sign over to him, in order to get off probation.
Prosecutors also said Viking funds were also used to pay over $240,000 to various casinos including Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island, and Steven Palladinos patronage of casinos was so extensive he got flown down to Caesars Atlantic City on a private jet and was allowed to take out $170