Is it any surprise that someone can be branded a shrewd and crooked businessman if his family is no different?
Unless you’ve been living in a landfill, you know about Massachusetts businessman William J. Thibeault and the political and noxious stink he’s making in Everett and Newburyport.
I first wrote about the demolition man two months ago, focusing on his left and right political campaign contributions in relation to serving at the helm of Great Northern Demolition Corporation, Wood Waste of Boston, and New Ventures Associates LLC.
Kay Lazar of the Boston Globe reported facts here and Gillian Swart maintains an online repository here.
I’m not going to tell you that two weeks after I wrote that June post, he contributed $500 to state auditor Joe DeNucci.
I will tell you that digging deeper into the Thibeault pockets provides some very interesting fodder.
Let’s start with his house and work our way to his family.
According to the Lynnfield Board of Assessors, Thibeault resides on a $1.7 million half-acre lot at 6 Elizabeth Way.
He bought the “mansion,” as the online property card describes it, for $10 on October 24, 2007. Tracing the quitclaim history shows a series of transactions beginning with Meadowview Realty Trust in 1999 and ending with realty trustee Oliver W. Stalter who sold it to Thibeault last fall.
Along the way, the Registry of Deeds specifies a $540,000 sale in May 2000 to Crossroads Leasing, Inc., a New Hampshire corporation, listing Thibeault as president and treasurer, with an address at 45 Greer Road in Goffstown.
Goffstown records indicate that address is owned by Agnes A. Thibeault. I’m guessing she’s Billy’s mom.
Further sleuthing uncovers two other Thibeaults on the same street:
- Brian J. Thibeault of 19 Greer Road, owner of Manchester-based Joseph Equipment Co., who served 5 years of probation and paid a $30,000 fine after a 2003 indictment for failing to file an IRS tax return; and who last month purchased a $8.75 million property as reported in the Union Leader.
- Ernest “Ernie” J. Thibeault III of 49 Greer Road, president of Londonberry, NH-based excavation contractor Thibeault Corporation of New England with either 200 employees or 25 employees, depending on the source; the subject of state wetlands violations and a 20+ year municipal conflict with Raymond residents; and described as “unresponsive” by Hudson residents according to a great piece of 2006 investigative journalism in the Hudson-Litchfield News.
For all I know, Brian and Ernie are not related to each other or to Billy. But the fact that Billy’s Lynnfield house traces its ownership to Agnes, and Agnes lives two lots away from Ernie is hardly coincidence.
Albert Einstein said, “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
You be the judge. You tell me if I’m pulling figures out of the logic that indicates shitty business transactions and asset protection by numerous names is a genetic trait in the Thibeault family.
What do YOU think?
No related posts.
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Ari, you write some good stuff.
The folks in Newburyport and Everett know exactly what kind of person Billy is. He not only lacks basic morals, he also has NO testicular fortitude whatsoever. His puppet attorneys do all his bidding for him. Why the F.B.I has not taken him down is a mystery to everyone. It pays to own 70 different LLCs with his sister!
People who recycle and who have been in that sort of business for a long time (way before the suburbanites ever put out their cute little bins with the recycling logo on it) do more good for this world than bad. The minimal impact that they have on people that resent living near a landfill or transfer station (who more times than not moved in after that undesireable feature of their community was already there) can and should be controlled by the regulatory community.
I am not a big fan of Mr. Thibeault, but I don’t see the benefit of delving into his personal life if he has not personally done anything to hurt me. That landfill was there before Mr. Thibeault took on the challenge of properly closing it to current standards as opposed to letting it pollute air, groundwater and surface water in its uncontrolled state.
I have had my car repaired by ex-convicts but I don’t check their moral character before driving it from the garage. Junk men, garbage men, construction and demolition guys will never likely ever be canonized but they provide an invaluable service just like your septic system. You don’t judge the guy who pumps out your septic tank (or maybe you do), why delve into the moral character of someone who will do the right thing when someone makes him do it, and not just because he is a nice guy.
Catherine E.