Tag Archives: Barnstable Superior Court
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Rules Against Gloucester Clammer ‘Monte’ Rome
‘Monte’ Rome of Gloucester, owner of the F/V Tom Slaughter and the wholesale seafood company Intershell, must pay the Provincetown Public Pier Corp. for docking at Provincetown’s MacMillan Pier in 2014 and 2015 when he was using hydraulic dredging gear to harvest sea clams from a two-square-mile area inside a 40-foot “contour zone” off Herring Cove Beach. Rather than pay his docking fees, Rome sued the town in 2015 after being served with a cease-and-desist order prohibiting him and three other fishing boat owners from conducting hydraulic dredging. >click to read< 10:38
Meanwhile on Old Cape Cod, Joe’s Lobster Mart legal battle gets ugly
There is a seafood fight underway in Barnstable Superior Court over accusations of embezzlement, disputes about property and allegations of derogatory comments. The suit and countersuit involve Scott Thayer and his former boss at Joe’s Lobster Mart in Sandwich, Joseph Vaudo — two men who worked side-by-side for 30 years and who appeared so close, Thayer went with Vaudo to Boston on several occasions as Vaudo tried to save his licenses to sell seafood. The state Department of Public Health revoked Vaudo’s licenses after he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen oysters at his Sandwich seafood business. Read the article here 10:48
