Re: Lawyer who operates Roxbury sober home is charged in drugs-for-sex scheme: [#425451786] Subpoena notice from Google (internal ref #54280)
Rodney Singleton
Good Morning,
I’d also like to add my thanks to those involved, including the work of the B2 Police folks! However, this latest set of unfortunate circumstances, coupled with the number of deaths that have occurred at that facility, begs the question…… Why, especially, if the City, as I understand it, won its’ case, are they still operating this facility? Drug addiction is an illness, so there should be help available for those who seek it, but this is not help, this is predatory!
Regards,
Dan
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Subject: Lawyer who operates Roxbury sober home is charged in drugs-for-sex scheme: [#425451786] Subpoena notice from Google (internal ref #54280)
Rep. Malia and Liana,
I'm thanking you both on behalf of the entire community for supporting us and seeing legislation thru that actually protects folks in recovery from the likes of David Perry.
When I got word from Liana and your call about Perry in the Globe, I thought to myself, we're finally on the road to possible vindication -- to being believed for a change.
I'm sure lots of folks remember being subpoenaed (intimidated) and dragged into court starting back in 2009 by David Perry and David Fromm.
It really was a team effort from our elected officials, so I'm also thanking Chuck Turner, Dianne Wilkerson and Gloria Fox. Wow! Look what we know now and where we are now, with addition help from Attorney General Maura Healey and her office! Thanks to the Mass AG effort!
But as I read thru the story and comments, it occurred to me that while a few may have been helped, the toll in lives lost and irreparable damage to the recovery community and the Roxbury community was far too high! And I don't know how that can be fixed. The Roxbury community wasn't even mentioned in the article (letter to editor I guess). Thanks to a Roxbury community that stayed strong, despite senseless collateral damage wrought by rouge developers.
Thank you ALL for your help and solidarity to the end!
Warm Regards,
-Rodney
Lawyer who operates Roxbury sober home is charged in drugs-for-sex scheme
By Danny McDonald GLOBE STAFF MAY 10, 2018
A Reading lawyer who owns and operates a Roxbury sober house for men is facing charges of distributing drugs to recovering users in exchange for sex, according to state Attorney General Maura Healey.
David Perry, 57, exploited residents “suffering from addiction by distributing drugs in exchange for sexual activity,” Healey said in a statement released by her office.
Perry owns and operates Recovery Education Service (RES) Inc., a nonprofit that runs a residential facility for men in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction on Washington Street in Roxbury.
Authorities allege Perry was distributing drugs to men seeking help for their addictions at the residential facility, and that he also distributed drugs to his legal clients who were “substance users.” He would also offer men struggling with drug addiction legal representation, advice, cash, and free rent at the sober home in exchange for sex, authorities said.
A statewide grand jury indicted Perry on May 4 on 15 counts of evidence tampering, seven counts of conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs, six counts of possession of illegal class B, C, and E substances, and six counts of sex for a fee.
He was arraigned Wednesday on some of those counts in Suffolk Superior Court, pleading not guilty to the evidence tampering and conspiracy charges and three of the sex for a fee counts. His bail was set at $10,000, which he posted.
Prosecutors at his arraignment had requested $100,000 bail, citing a near-fatal overdose that occurred at his Reading home on Tuesday.
Perry’s release conditions require that he wear a GPS monitoring device, be subject to home confinement except for a 12-hour period on Sundays, court appearances, and probation appointments, according to the attorney general’s office.
He was also ordered to stay away from the sober house, most of the grand jury witnesses, and cannot apply for a new passport, according to prosecutors.
Peter Pasciucco, an attorney representing Perry, said his client is “staying positive.”
“We plan on vigorously defending against each and every one of the indictments,” he said.
Pasciucco said he believed there were more than a dozen witnesses who testified during the statewide grand jury investigation in a manner that was favorable to Perry. Specifically, said Pasciucco, they discussed how “instrumental David was in assisting them in their recovery from substance abuse.”
Perry himself has battled alcohol and drug addiction in the past, appearing in federal court in 2001 after federal agents arrested him as part of a narcotics sweep.
According to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers website, Perry was suspended from the Massachusetts bar in 2004 and reinstated in October 2014.
At one point, Perry was viewed as a sober success story. He was a sought-after speaker at halfway houses, juvenile offender programs, and drug courts across the state and appeared at recovery conferences throughout the country.
But prosecutors said Perry abused his power both as an attorney and as an operator of a sober home. Investigators found that between 2012 and 2017, Perry “targeted multiple victims that fit a specific profile: young, male, drug addicts,” according to court documents filed by the attorney general’s office.
Perry also intentionally deceived numerous courts in Massachusetts, according to authorities, “by providing false and misleading letters to probation departments on behalf of individuals associated with RES in exchange for sex, drugs, and money.”
“This organized criminal scheme was designed to keep male addicts hooked on drugs and keep them as residents of RES where Perry would profit off them financially and have unfettered access to them for sex,” according to court documents filed by the attorney general’s office, which has made tackling the opioid crisis a priority.
The sexual activity occurred in Perry’s personal room at the Roxbury residential facility, as well as his Reading home, prosecutors said.
The case was sparked when Perry made allegations to Reading police in December 2016 that an individual identified in court papers as “Witness 1” had stolen a watch from his home, according to court documents.
A month later, Reading police were provided with information that Perry had invited “Witness 1” to his home and offered him multiple drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaine, and liquid “G,” which is known as a date rape drug, according to authorities.
He also offered “Witness 1” the opportunity “to participate in a sex party with other men,” prosecutors said. That witness spent one week at Perry’s Reading home and told investigators that drug and sex parties “occurred almost nightly.” Perry provided “Witness 1” with drugs “in exchange for sexual conduct” during that time frame, prosecutors said in court documents.
State Police, the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI’s organized crime drug enforcement task force, the state Department of Correction, and Reading police all contributed to the investigation, according to prosecutors.
Perry is now facing a tangle of legal problems.
He is due back in Suffolk Superior Court on May 21 for a pretrial conference and will be arraigned on six drug possession counts and three counts of sex for a fee in Middlesex Superior Court at a later date, according to the attorney general’s office.
Additionally, Perry was also indicted by a statewide grand jury in February on one count each of fentanyl distribution and conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs, according to Healey’s office. He was arraigned on those charges in Suffolk Superior Court on Feb. 28, according to the attorney general’s office.
Last fall, Perry was indicted by a Middlesex grand jury in connection with allegedly conspiring to smuggle items into the Middlesex Jail and House of Correction, according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office. Perry, according to prosecutors, allegedly conspired with a detainee at the jail to exchange what was thought to be Suboxone during visits at the jail.
A search last fall of Perry’s home and the sober house yielded methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl, among other substances, according to the attorney general’s office.
Thomas Farragher of Globe Staff contributed to this report. Danny McDonald can be reached at daniel....@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @Danny__McDonald.
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September 18, 2007
Mr. Russell Archibald
Office of Housing and Urban Development
Tip O'Neill Federal Building
Phone: 617 - 994-8309
FAX: 617-565-7313
Re: Safe Haven Sober Homes of Roxbury
Dear Mr. Archibald:
Recent court cases by the Safe Haven Sober Homes in Roxbury, against the city of Boston and elected officials representing constituents impacted by the facility, really demonstrates an unhealthy pattern of development in the neighborhoods of Boston struggling to gain a level of parity and justice with the rest of the city and more regionally.
The assertion of Sober Homes management that neighbors have clearly expressed to elected officials a need to move the operation because these same neighbors fear property devaluation and have no interest in helping the disabled, even if it violates civil rights mandates, truly misrepresents the concerns of those who attended the many community meetings that have occurred to date. To the contrary, no other community understands the plight of disenfranchisement and prejudice better than the citizen of Roxbury, nor has been more accommodating and proactive to this disabled population in recovery.
As community members who attended and participated in many of the Sober Home discussions, we can tell you that the meetings had much more to do with the callous disregard for city procedure, neighborly interaction, and established protocols for facilities of this type meant to protect the citizens of Roxbury and help occupants served by such a facility.
Many neighbors abutting the Safe Haven Sober Home would agree that the home devaluation view, held by management of the facility, is their view. And everyone is entitled to their view of things. But the crux of the matter is why no effort went into understanding the views and needs of abutting neighbors and the neighborhood as a whole, before an enterprise like this was undertaken.
A community discussion, before hand, would have no doubt uncovered what the community meetings exposed after the fact. Namely, that the community concerns are that: no services are provided at the home to rehabilitate occupants; no supervision is provided to keep occupants and the larger community safe; no services are provided to modify behavioral patterns of addiction, on or off-site; no adequate intake protocol exists to assess entering occupants; occupants are paying for a room, but no services are provided to rehabilitate them; a number of occupants are sex-offenders and are located close to an elementary school, 2 day-care programs and any number of after school programs for children; city of Boston zoning laws were not adhered to; for-sale housing needs of 10-12 condo units that are affordable have been abated; overcrowding each unit is unsafe to occupants and the surrounding community; recent deaths on the premises are evidence that occupants are not being served, and the community suffers the consequences and stigma of such deaths.
Representation for the many community meetings mentioned above were drawn from many parts of the community and organizations in the community. They include, but are not limited to: Academy Homes, Dudley Main Streets, Fort Hill Civic Association, Fountain Hill Condo Association, Garrison-Trotter, Guild-Bartlett-Washington Street Condo Association, Hawthorne Area Neighborhood Association, Highland Park Neighborhood Association, Highland Park Project Review Committee, Shelburne Center, St. Joseph’s, Tommy’s Rock Neighborhood, Friends of Juniper Street and the Roxbury Neighborhood Council.
The organizations mentioned above and the people in the neighborhood served by these organizations have all been approached by developers and service providers, as a neighborly gesture to assess the viability of proposed developments and services for the neighborhood. No such meeting ever took place prior to more than 10 condominiums in the neighborhood transitioning from needed for-sale housing that market forces were making more affordable, to the current use of Safe Haven Sober Home facility.
The Sobering reality is that the management of Safe Haven Sober Homes in Roxbury is not viewed as a relevant, contributing part of the community it seeks to be a part of because it never asked what the community needed, as other organization have done in the past. Our neighborhoods require we be neighbors first and that the well-being of the entire neighborhood be of concern to everyone who is a part of that neighborhood. It’s clear that the well-being of the entire neighborhood was not a motivation or concern when the Safe Haven Sober Home was conceived because too many neighbors were left out of the process.
Had neighbors been consulted, the management of Safe Haven would have discovered what we think our neighborhood needs. We need: to put an end to gun violence; to protect and provide safe haven to our young; to improve the scholastic achievement of our young; opportunities to buy affordable homes to raise our young; educational opportunities for ourselves and our young; job opportunities to raise our families; to provide for our disabled; to provide for our elderly. And yes we need to provide for the disabled who are recovering from addiction as well.
We need many things, but one cannot have the discussion of what our community needs without including the rest of our neighbors as participants in the process! As we see it, this is a sense of the community side of the story. This side of story cannot be ignored, because that input adds gravity and value to the overall discussion. It is our hope that the management of Safe Haven sees this input for what it is: a shared vision of our neighborhood, where we all have a say!
In closing, it’s ironic to note that civil rights laws are being sought to seemingly correct poor business decisions in a weak real estate market in our city. The same civil rights laws that many people in Roxbury fought very hard to secure. After civil rights gains, parity has yet to become a reality and the citizens of Roxbury appreciate when we hear people say: the converse of poverty is justice. Roxbury residents understand that statement far too well because we struggle with poverty and issues of parity every day and believe the time is right for some measure of justice now!
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
-Citizens of Roxbury
CC: City Councilor Chuck Turner, State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, State Rep. Gloria fox, State Rep. Liz Malia, Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino, US Congressman Michael Capuano and community members from the following neighborhood organizations: Academy Homes, Dudley Main Streets, Fort Hill Civic Association, Fountain Hill Condo Association, Garrison-Trotter, Guild-Bartlett-Washington Street Condo Association, Hawthorne Area Neighborhood Association, Highland Park Neighborhood Association, Highland Park Project Review Committee, Shelburne Center, St. Joseph’s, Tommy’s Rock Neighborhood, Friends of Juniper Street, Roxbury Neighborhood Council
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