Bauchman pleads guilty to assaults
BRENTWOOD — A Windham man convicted in 1988 of molesting a young child yesterday admitted to sexually assaulting two more children.
Richard Bauchman, 53, may end up serving 33 1âÑ2 to 67 years in state prison for the sexual assaults he committed in Windham and Londonderry over the last 20 years.
The sentence will be up to Judge Tina Nadeau.
As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Bauchman pleaded guilty to several charges, including aggravated felonious sexual assault, criminal solicitation and witness tampering.
He has been in custody since his arrest last year, when police discovered he molested an 8-year-old boy in Londonderry during summer 2001.
During that investigation, a woman came forward and told police she was molested by Bauchman in Windham between April 1982 and December 1983, according to Assistant County Attorney Marcia Rosenn. The woman was 8 years old at the time of the assaults.
Local man helps clean up Madoff scandal
LONDONDERRY — For most people, the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme is nothing short of a disaster.
The New York City-based financier bilked his clients — many of them celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks — out of billions of dollars as federal regulators watched from the sidelines. Now he sits in jail, awaiting final word from a judge on what is likely to be a lengthy prison sentence.
But others see the Madoff scandal as an opportunity — to help others.
For the past 20 years, Stephen Sussman has run a company in Londonderry that specializes in navigating the complicated world of federal compliance rules and regulations for the trading of stocks and bonds and other financial instruments.
When he got a call last year to join a former colleague who was starting a company to buy the only legitimate remains of the Madoff empire, he jumped at the opportunity, even though much of the up front work was done without pay.
"I don't mind doing this pro bono," he said, "because I'm giving money back to the victims. I couldn't get all the money back that the victims lost ... But I'm Jewish, most of the victims were Jewish — at least I'm doing something."
While Sussman, 52, runs a 20-person compliance company (soon to grow to 50 people) with hundreds of clients, his latest client is clearly his biggest.
Surge Trading Inc. purchased the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in a deal that was finalized Thursday for $25.5 million.
Londonderry man charged in break-in
ATTLEBORO, Mass. — A Londonderry man is among the people indicted in Masssachusetts by a Bristol County grand jury on charges in connection with the attempted break-in at a now-closed jewelry manufacturing plant.
Thomas J. Enquist, 41, of Londonderry, was indicted on attempted breaking and entering and unlawful possession of burglar's tools related to the attempted break-in at Jostens in October 2007. Rikkile Brown, 22, of Peabody, Mass., was indicted for receiving stolen property worth more than $250.
Sean Murphy, 44, of Lynn, and his girlfriend, Kristen A. Sullivan, 22, were indicted earlier. All were arrested earlier this year after an investigation by city police, the FBI, and state police into the theft of gold, silver, jewelry and New York Giants Super Bowl rings from E.A. Dion. The indictments transfer the cases to superior court for trial.
