He was not quite James “Whitey” Bulger, but federal prosecutors in Boston announced Friday the arrest in Florida of Scott Wolas, a disbarred lawyer accused of perpetrating a $1.5 million real estate investment fraud in Massachusetts.
Wolas, booted from Hunton & Williams’ partnership in 1995, had reportedly used numerous aliases to remain on the run for nearly two decades. His most recent legal troubles stem from the proposed sale and demolition last year of the Beachcomber, a bar in Quincy, Massachusetts, to make way for a new high-end restaurant and development in the Boston suburb’s Wollaston Beach neighborhood.
