Dean Tran, a former Massachusetts state Senator, was sentenced to prison for fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits and failing to report income. Prosecutors say he collected $30,120 in pandemic unemployment benefits and concealed $54,700 in income after his Senate term ended.
Former Massachusetts state Senator Dean Tran was sentenced to a year and a half in prison followed by two years of supervised release on Friday. Tran, a Fitchburg Republican, served in the Massachusetts Senate from late 2017 until early 2021.
He was convicted in September of 20 counts of wire fraud and three counts of filing false tax returns in connection with a scheme to defraud the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) and fail to report income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). U.S. District Court Chief Judge Dennis Saylor IV also ordered Tran to pay $25,100 in restitution to the DUA, $23,327 to the IRS, a $7,500 fine, and a mandatory assessment of $2,300. Prosecutors stated that Tran fraudulently collected $30,120 in pandemic unemployment benefits and concealed $54,700 in income after his Senate term ended. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley commented on the sentencing, saying, 'When Dean Tran took his oath of office as a Massachusetts State Senator, he willingly entered into a world of being in the public eye. He chose to violate the public's trust not once, but twice by defrauding the government out of unemployment benefits and willfully omitting his taxable income. His fraud and calculated deception erode the public's trust in elected officials and diverted money away from those who truly needed it.' Foley further emphasized that 'Our office and our law enforcement partners are committed to rooting out public officials who violate the law and holding them accountable for their actions.'Prior to his conviction, the Massachusetts Senate sanctioned Tran in 2020 after the Senate Ethics Committee found that his office staff had been performing campaign work with public resources during business hours. Tran denied these charges at the time. He was subsequently removed from his position as assistant minority whip and banned from interacting with his staff except through official emails. Tran narrowly lost his 2020 reelection bid to Sen. John Cronin, a Democrat. In 2022, he ran for Congress against U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan, garnering more than 88,500 votes in his loss.
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