NESN fired a VP yesterday; today they sued him

NESN contiguous sued its present erstwhile vice president for integer media to retrieve the $575,000 they complaint helium made disconnected with by sending wealth to a institution helium made up with a adjacent identical sanction to a institution the web really wanted to enactment with.

In a suit filed successful US District Court successful Boston today, the sports web owned by the Red Sox and Bruins charges that Ariel Legassa, whom it hired successful 2019 to pb its online efforts, created a dummy institution called Alley CT and past funneled wealth to it that was expected to spell to Alley NY, an existent company, with employees and everything, that was to proviso bundle and Web improvement for a caller task NESN was moving on.

Until helium was fired yesterday, Legassa oversaw a unit of 2 dozen.

NESN alleges Legassa created his dummy Alley institution past February, astir 3 weeks earlier helium oversaw the signing of a declaration with the existent Alley company.

The pursuing day, helium sent invoices from Alley CT totaling $110,000 to NESN’s Accounts Payable section for payment, adjacent though NESN had nary declaration with Alley CT. ...

At assorted times betwixt March 3, 2021 and January 5, 2022, Legassa sent NESN’s Accounts Payable section astatine slightest eleven invoices purportedly from Alley CT for outgo by NESN. As VP of Digital, Legassa had authorization to o.k. invoices relating to integer media, and helium sent these invoices astatine assorted times from his idiosyncratic and NESN email addresses.

The invoices from the Alley CT are identical to invoices NESN received from Alley NY successful each respects (including successful the usage of Alley NY’s trademark design) but that Alley
NY invoices see the mailing code for Alley NY and accusation astir however to marque a outgo straight to Alley NY’s Chase account; whereas Alley CT invoices see the Connecticut code controlled by Legassa and lacked immoderate slope relationship oregon routing information.

NESN says it lone learned of the subterfuge connected Tuesday, and claims Legassa acknowledged astatine slightest portion of the fraud successful a telephone telephone with NESN's vice president of concern yesterday. The web than cashiered him.

In its suit, NESN says it wants its wealth back, positive lawyer and tribunal costs, positive immoderate damages a assemblage would reason Legassa needs to beryllium made to pay.

Legassa has yet to respond to the suit.