Halloween Attack on Trolley Operator Was Alleged Fraud Scheme

A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley operator has been charged with fraudulently collecting workers’ compensation and disability insurance benefits after allegedly paying someone to attack him on the job in 2016. The Suffolk County Grand Jury on Wednesday returned indictments charging Thomas Lucey, 46, of Saugus, with two counts of insurance fraud and single counts of workers’ compensation fraud, misleading a police investigation, and perjury. During the attack, just after midnight on Oct. 30, 2016, a man in dark coveralls wearing a “Michael Myers” Hal...