Owner of Dorchester, Roslindale pizza places charged with beating, intimidating his mostly immigrant workers; one had to have genital surgery and all his teeth removed after attacks
I usually order from the place every other week or so...the food was pretty good and the prices reasonable but now knowing that the owner did some pretty nasty things to his employees, I won't be ordering there ever again.
Perhaps my desire for new ownership was a bit too subtle for the likes of you, as I could never patronize an owner who treats his staff like that.
In fact, I like the staff there, so I am hoping that all the workers don’t lose their livelihoods due to this sociopath. I also haven’t gotten food from there in over a year.
Kinopio, on the other hand, will spend more time griping about the horrible owner but couldn’t really care for the victimized employees. I feel for those people, as unlike Kino, I’ve interacted with them.
Stash's is a straight shot and a jog to the right where I live, and when the employees dropped off the food, they were quite friendly and I didn't suspect a thing. When I kept on reading the affidavit, my jaw dropped to the floor.
The only other thing that was out of whack was the steep delivery fee ($5.00)…I wondered if that delivery fee and the tips went to his workers or his own pockets. Had I known about the vicious things the owner was doing, I would have stopped ordering a long time ago.
Yes, Kino is known for his bluster, but even with that statement he made, and as time bears out, he may be right. I try my best not to get people riled up or upset, and if my statement did that, I do apologize.
It's really hard to see anyone who would still be purchasing anything from him. This poor excuse for a "human" should be behind bars for the rest of his life and all assets seized to attempt to compensate his victims.
If he acted like this report says, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from speaking up if this happened in front of me. Mind you, I am not a big person at all and as intimidating as a wet towel.
Karma for killing a person with his car years ago and throwing the body in a ditch and then bragging about it and got caught and only did a year in jail
My guess is probably not as I imagine he was as much as a db with his business as he was with his employees. The feds will likely be able to "pierce the corporate veil" and then all bets are off and the LLC protections will go away.
holding a sign saying Stash's is Racist, or something similar some time back, in front of the shop at Columbia and Blue. Not surprised to read this story.
The pen is mightier than the sword. I hope this story gets him shut down as well as heavily fined. Most likely he'll be on the hook for hiring illegals and not declaring taxes as well.
I heard that his brother ruined his life and text a black customer that she’s a n word but I know Steve and his very nice and a humble man every 4 kids and a great wife
This is not a legal term, it’s a term of derision. The generally preferred term “undocumented” is also a much clearer depiction of their legal status than “illegal” as a noun.
that the story of the old man getting his throat cut in his own home was the worst Boston story I’d hear this year, and now this?
Throw. Away. The. Key.
This guy doesn’t deserve another shot at being part of society.
I have wanted to own my own business my whole life. How do scumbags like this get the money/opportunity to own several?!
This story is just a total spirit breaker...
SMH
That’s why everyone there is rude as hell and miserable. I stopped going there years ago because it was just too ridiculously rude. At least in Dorchester.
Victim 1 is permanently harmed. The maximum possible sentence under our justice system can't compensate his injuries. All the assets this lowlife has probably can't even cover the back pay he owes, let alone the damages.
He should do his entire sentence at forced labor, with every penny going to his victims.
Is there any chance they can also go after him in state court for assault, etc...? ...or would that amount to double-jeopardy or something otherwise disqualifying?
I stopped ordering from Stash's years ago, when they refused to credit my card for a charged item that they didn't even deliver. I've also heard many informal stories over the years that strongly indicated this guy was a racist scumbag, so not at all surprised by this news.
Me too. I read enough and to the point where I held no possibility of redemption for this man. To prey on vulnerable workers is bad enough but this guy seemed to think he was untouchable. Sadly he kind of was for a long time it seems.
I do hope that the victims can get some money from the civil side. Especially the man who is facing permanent damage in so many ways.
That the way the headline was originally worded indicated that this criminal was a Boston resident and he is not. And as a resident of Boston, I am tired of the media's negative consistent portrayal of our neighborhoods. So, yes, I do believe that it should lead with a headline like "Business owner from Westwood terrorizes undocumented employees throughout his chain of pizza restaurants in Boston"
It is too easy for people from the suburbs to say "Oh, that would never happen here." And it turns out that the guy is someone's neighbor in Westwood. Not Roslindale or Dorchester.
In this case, though, we're dealing with a pair of food places that are well known in their neighborhoods (the Dorchester one in particular) and involve people who worked at those places, so I thought it was more important - in the headline - to note that, along with the truly horrible things he allegedly did to one worker in particular.
And it's not like I buried where he lives - it's in the second paragraph.
This man is the scum of the earth. And it should be a reminder that immigrants have never taken your job; your boss just took advantage of someone's lack of legal status in order to pay them less, give them fewer if any benefits, and the ability to treat them like shit while holding deportation over their head if they push back.
I hate that I have patronized this man's businesses.
I had an encounter with this foul speaking owner, who wanted to fight a customer and I intervened and he gave me a lot of foul talk infront of many customers. That place used to have good food.
I worked with an immigrant community org in the greater metro area. Many people who worked in restaurants had similar stories about how they arrived in Boston - contacted by a recruiter elsewhere in the country, promised jobs, put on a bus up here with very little other information, plunked in overcrowded shithole apartments in Chelsea or Everett and basically forced to work 60+ hours a week in restaurants across the city.
And it's not just Boston, trafficking is how the restaurant industry works. It's not just one sociopath, there are networks of people that make this possible, and restaurant owners know it.
I saw this dick behind the place in Roslindale once screaming at a much smaller, very sad looking gentleman and backing him into a fence. Couldn't make out everything being said but thought I heard some racial garbage. I wanted to intervene but I was with seven dogs (dog walker), and now I regret not sticking every single one of them on him. Prick.
The photo went with a story about the launch of Boston's new letter grading system for restaurants, and for whatever reasons, the guy got the first such window sign in the whole city.
If you are in a building trades union or a police “union” (there are no bigger scabs than cops) or generally work in a trade that people think of as tough and masculine he’s probably your friend but if you are a retail worker, a domestic worker, or any other highly racialized and gendered profession he absolutely could not care less about you. It’s been very clear from the first moments he ran for office who he considered to be fellow workers and who he is willing to throw under the bus. The whole ongoing love affair between big union guy Marty and devout neoliberal Baker should also make you question where his loyalties really lie.
All of that is to say, for NHL players he will probably be fine, but is the players union under his tenure ever going to use it’s platform to stick up for fellow workers who are stadium janitors and retail employees, or say the people who stitch the jerseys? Definitely not.
Which explains why he moved on from his cabinet position with a stick-in-the-mud administration that expects its appointees to act with professional ethics and not just be grinning, glad-handing, my-kinda-people sacks of shit.
This is very much a deliberate outcome. US border policy for as long as it has existed has been shaped by employers desire to have a group of second class non-citizens with no protections that they can exploit and threaten with deportation if they attempt to do anything about it. This isn’t an accident it is a very deliberate strategy.
Man mistreats immigrants and your first thought is “is he an immigrant? We should treat him with the violence with which we treat immigrants in general.” Pathetic.
When someone is someplace they’re not allowed to be, making them leave is not punishment and it’s not an act of violence.
Yes, our immigration enforcement apparatus is intentionally, as a matter of policy, cruel and soulless at an institutional level and often downright sociopathic at an individual level, such that it turns deportation into a violent and abusive process, but that is a separate problem. Deportation is not inherently violent.
Investigations like this take time before charges are filed. I'm sure he realized he was going down months ago and made the choice not to renew in that period.
We found out about all this the other day. He's known about it for a while.
He's likely to go to prison for a long, long time, and he knew that long before we did. That might not happen for a while - there are trials and whatnot. But what would predictably happen immediately is that, once this information came out, it would become impossible for him to even show his face in public, let alone run a business. Why would he renew a lease on a business that would be impossible to run?
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Yikes
I usually order from the place every other week or so...the food was pretty good and the prices reasonable but now knowing that the owner did some pretty nasty things to his employees, I won't be ordering there ever again.
Let's hope for new ownership on Belgrade Ave.
It's decent food, and the staff seem nice enough, but it would be tough to give this guy my business.
"Tough" but not "impossible"?
"Tough" but not "impossible"? You'd still be willing to give this psychopathic slave owner your business under some conditions?
Really?
That’s a strong dose of projecting with a side of making an ass of yourself there.
Let's be honest
Wackweeought will spend even more money at this place, and probably has already started a gfm for "Stash's" legal fund.
Sigh
Perhaps my desire for new ownership was a bit too subtle for the likes of you, as I could never patronize an owner who treats his staff like that.
In fact, I like the staff there, so I am hoping that all the workers don’t lose their livelihoods due to this sociopath. I also haven’t gotten food from there in over a year.
Tough? It should be easy to
Tough? It should be easy to not give your money to a violent slave driver.
**hat tip**
Kinopio - normally I vehemently disagree with your automobile screeds, but here, as time goes on, you may be right.
I’m going to take offense here
As my quote was basically agreeing with you.
Kinopio, on the other hand, will spend more time griping about the horrible owner but couldn’t really care for the victimized employees. I feel for those people, as unlike Kino, I’ve interacted with them.
No offense intended
Stash's is a straight shot and a jog to the right where I live, and when the employees dropped off the food, they were quite friendly and I didn't suspect a thing. When I kept on reading the affidavit, my jaw dropped to the floor.
The only other thing that was out of whack was the steep delivery fee ($5.00)…I wondered if that delivery fee and the tips went to his workers or his own pockets. Had I known about the vicious things the owner was doing, I would have stopped ordering a long time ago.
Yes, Kino is known for his bluster, but even with that statement he made, and as time bears out, he may be right. I try my best not to get people riled up or upset, and if my statement did that, I do apologize.
Hard to believe
It's really hard to see anyone who would still be purchasing anything from him. This poor excuse for a "human" should be behind bars for the rest of his life and all assets seized to attempt to compensate his victims.
If he acted like this report says, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from speaking up if this happened in front of me. Mind you, I am not a big person at all and as intimidating as a wet towel.
karma
Karma for killing a person with his car years ago and throwing the body in a ditch and then bragging about it and got caught and only did a year in jail
I'm with you on that one
I'm with you on that one Cleary Squared. Never again.
F-ing psychpath
I hope this horrendous excuse for a person spends the rest of his life in jail and gets treated there the way he treated his employees.
Only 20 years?
First of all, 20 years seems pretty light based on the torture this guy inflicted.
I also sure hope the IRS takes a close look at his business because I'm sure he was skimming big time
Poor Mr. Papantoniadis
To paraphrase Flannery O’Connor, “he could have been a good man, if there had been someone there to shoot him every minute of his life.”
Are they still in business?
Are they still in business? All assets should be sold and given to victims.
Shut down?
Part of me hopes they are closed, but part is sad for the people who will lose jobs.
Looks like they have some
Looks like they have some kind of LLC set up. Would that prevent all his assets being seized?
My guess is probably not as I
My guess is probably not as I imagine he was as much as a db with his business as he was with his employees. The feds will likely be able to "pierce the corporate veil" and then all bets are off and the LLC protections will go away.
Those kinds of jobs we can do without
It's slavery by any other name.
I saw a
holding a sign saying Stash's is Racist, or something similar some time back, in front of the shop at Columbia and Blue. Not surprised to read this story.
The pen is mightier than the sword. I hope this story gets him shut down as well as heavily fined. Most likely he'll be on the hook for hiring illegals and not declaring taxes as well.
(Black) People have known this for years
but still ate there.
Stash treats us like crap and this makes so much sense.
Black people definitely knew
Black people definitely knew this, I know many who don’t frequent Stash’s because of the owner’s known racism.
I had no idea the owner was
I had no idea the owner was such a douchebag.
His brother ruined his business back then
I heard that his brother ruined his life and text a black customer that she’s a n word but I know Steve and his very nice and a humble man every 4 kids and a great wife
language like "illegals"
helps enable this kind of treatment of people.
no one is illegal
No one is illegal. Beating workers, not paying overtime, and not paying people at all on the other hand...
Actually some people are illegal.
If you enter the country illegally you're illegal. That's how it works, we have laws.
Acts are illegal
People are not.
Have you ever?
If you’ve ever illegally driven above the speed limit you’re illegal. That’s how it works, we have laws.
It’s not
Except no one says that. And the term illegal/illegals as refering to people is reserved for immigrants. Now why is that?
If you come into the country without papers you are undocumented not illegal.
It’s actually not
This is not a legal term, it’s a term of derision. The generally preferred term “undocumented” is also a much clearer depiction of their legal status than “illegal” as a noun.
I thought
that the story of the old man getting his throat cut in his own home was the worst Boston story I’d hear this year, and now this?
Throw. Away. The. Key.
This guy doesn’t deserve another shot at being part of society.
I have wanted to own my own business my whole life. How do scumbags like this get the money/opportunity to own several?!
This story is just a total spirit breaker...
SMH
While this is abhorent
I'd argure death is still worse! Specifically bleeding out from your throat.
Explains so much
That’s why everyone there is rude as hell and miserable. I stopped going there years ago because it was just too ridiculously rude. At least in Dorchester.
this explains perfectly why
this explains perfectly why the staff in Randolph was always so rude and miserable
20 years can't cover this
Victim 1 is permanently harmed. The maximum possible sentence under our justice system can't compensate his injuries. All the assets this lowlife has probably can't even cover the back pay he owes, let alone the damages.
He should do his entire sentence at forced labor, with every penny going to his victims.
Is there any chance they can
Is there any chance they can also go after him in state court for assault, etc...? ...or would that amount to double-jeopardy or something otherwise disqualifying?
I stopped ordering from Stash
I stopped ordering from Stash's years ago, when they refused to credit my card for a charged item that they didn't even deliver. I've also heard many informal stories over the years that strongly indicated this guy was a racist scumbag, so not at all surprised by this news.
I tried
I tried to read through the rest of the affidavit and had to stop. This monster should be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Me too. I read enough and to
Me too. I read enough and to the point where I held no possibility of redemption for this man. To prey on vulnerable workers is bad enough but this guy seemed to think he was untouchable. Sadly he kind of was for a long time it seems.
I do hope that the victims can get some money from the civil side. Especially the man who is facing permanent damage in so many ways.
Can we change the title to something like...
Westwood man charged with beating & intimidating his immigrant employees in Dorchester & Roslindale?
This guy is not from Boston, let the suburbs take the rap for this jerk.
What does that even mean?
What does that even mean? Should suburbs “take the rap” crimes committed there by people from Boston?
It means
That the way the headline was originally worded indicated that this criminal was a Boston resident and he is not. And as a resident of Boston, I am tired of the media's negative consistent portrayal of our neighborhoods. So, yes, I do believe that it should lead with a headline like "Business owner from Westwood terrorizes undocumented employees throughout his chain of pizza restaurants in Boston"
It is too easy for people from the suburbs to say "Oh, that would never happen here." And it turns out that the guy is someone's neighbor in Westwood. Not Roslindale or Dorchester.
Here is an example: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/francisco-severo-torres-leominster-e...
Well, to be accurate
At least some of the alleged crimes did happen when he was a Boston resident - he used to live in West Roxbury.
I'm as eager as anybody else to point out when a suburbanite comes into the city to commit crimes, for the same reason you state.
In this case, though, we're dealing with a pair of food places that are well known in their neighborhoods (the Dorchester one in particular) and involve people who worked at those places, so I thought it was more important - in the headline - to note that, along with the truly horrible things he allegedly did to one worker in particular.
And it's not like I buried where he lives - it's in the second paragraph.
He is though
It really doesn't matter at all, but he's from West Roxbury. Always been a complete piece of shit.
What "rap" is that?
Please, a sense of the appropriate would be in order. This concern of yours is laughably trivial and frankly embarrassing.
fundraising for victims?
Are there victims' services and supports in place? What about fundraising for medical/psychological expenses?
Scum
This man is the scum of the earth. And it should be a reminder that immigrants have never taken your job; your boss just took advantage of someone's lack of legal status in order to pay them less, give them fewer if any benefits, and the ability to treat them like shit while holding deportation over their head if they push back.
I hate that I have patronized this man's businesses.
What a POS; the victims
What a POS; the victims should take him for every red cent and he should rot in jail.
The food is terrible...I really don't understand why ppl eat there and waste their $.
So true
I had an encounter with this foul speaking owner, who wanted to fight a customer and I intervened and he gave me a lot of foul talk infront of many customers. That place used to have good food.
looks like we found the star pupil
and graduate of the Upper Crust School of Pizzeria Management and Labor Abuse
let's remember, cases like this are never just isolated cases, this is how the system works.
100%
Businesses in Boston need employees, willing workers shouldn’t have to feel that they are one complaint from being deported by their employer
about 10 years ago
I worked with an immigrant community org in the greater metro area. Many people who worked in restaurants had similar stories about how they arrived in Boston - contacted by a recruiter elsewhere in the country, promised jobs, put on a bus up here with very little other information, plunked in overcrowded shithole apartments in Chelsea or Everett and basically forced to work 60+ hours a week in restaurants across the city.
And it's not just Boston, trafficking is how the restaurant industry works. It's not just one sociopath, there are networks of people that make this possible, and restaurant owners know it.
I saw this dick behind the
I saw this dick behind the place in Roslindale once screaming at a much smaller, very sad looking gentleman and backing him into a fence. Couldn't make out everything being said but thought I heard some racial garbage. I wanted to intervene but I was with seven dogs (dog walker), and now I regret not sticking every single one of them on him. Prick.
Does this mean
That Stash's will no longer give police discounts to the Boston and Transit Police?
One presumes Marty didn't know
One presumes Marty didn't know all this when he stopped by for a photo op in 2016.
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Kinda Funny
Nothing like taking a celebratory photo of your restaurant not having any health code violations.
Yeah, but ...
The photo went with a story about the launch of Boston's new letter grading system for restaurants, and for whatever reasons, the guy got the first such window sign in the whole city.
Can't be the same guy
Above it says the dirtbag is 47 now. That guy in the picture with Mahty can't be in his early forties.
No way
That guy already looks into his fifties in this photo. Probably lots of drinking, smoking, and a lifetime of anger and racism.
NHL players should
be shaking in their skates. This man is the most anti-worker “union guy” the world has ever seen.
Depends
If you are in a building trades union or a police “union” (there are no bigger scabs than cops) or generally work in a trade that people think of as tough and masculine he’s probably your friend but if you are a retail worker, a domestic worker, or any other highly racialized and gendered profession he absolutely could not care less about you. It’s been very clear from the first moments he ran for office who he considered to be fellow workers and who he is willing to throw under the bus. The whole ongoing love affair between big union guy Marty and devout neoliberal Baker should also make you question where his loyalties really lie.
All of that is to say, for NHL players he will probably be fine, but is the players union under his tenure ever going to use it’s platform to stick up for fellow workers who are stadium janitors and retail employees, or say the people who stitch the jerseys? Definitely not.
Which explains...
Which explains why he moved on from his cabinet position with a stick-in-the-mud administration that expects its appointees to act with professional ethics and not just be grinning, glad-handing, my-kinda-people sacks of shit.
We should just end borders entirely
If the outcome of having them is "Obey me, or I'll have you forcibly taken outside the imaginary lines."
Yep
This might be the first time I’ve agreed with you
This is the outcome
This is very much a deliberate outcome. US border policy for as long as it has existed has been shaped by employers desire to have a group of second class non-citizens with no protections that they can exploit and threaten with deportation if they attempt to do anything about it. This isn’t an accident it is a very deliberate strategy.
If this sounds far fetched read “Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” which is probably the best book I’ve read on the US border and goes into depth in all of this.
Was he born in the US?
If not, can we deport him?
Just wow
Man mistreats immigrants and your first thought is “is he an immigrant? We should treat him with the violence with which we treat immigrants in general.” Pathetic.
Deportation is not violence
When someone is someplace they’re not allowed to be, making them leave is not punishment and it’s not an act of violence.
Yes, our immigration enforcement apparatus is intentionally, as a matter of policy, cruel and soulless at an institutional level and often downright sociopathic at an individual level, such that it turns deportation into a violent and abusive process, but that is a separate problem. Deportation is not inherently violent.
I think it is odd timing
I think it is odd timing since his lease is up and the space has recently been marketed for lease.
I think he owns that whole
I think he owns that whole stretch in Rozzie.
Investigations like this take
Investigations like this take time before charges are filed. I'm sure he realized he was going down months ago and made the choice not to renew in that period.
So you think this is...what?
So you think this is...what? Some kind of scheme to force him out of the building?
Coincidence? I think not.
We found out about all this the other day. He's known about it for a while.
He's likely to go to prison for a long, long time, and he knew that long before we did. That might not happen for a while - there are trials and whatnot. But what would predictably happen immediately is that, once this information came out, it would become impossible for him to even show his face in public, let alone run a business. Why would he renew a lease on a business that would be impossible to run?