Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BOSTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A career criminal's claim for compensation for work missed during a jail stay was rejected due to concerns about his type of work, a Massachusetts judge says. A judge in Suffolk County, Mass., said while Robert Aldrich was cleared of robbery charges after spending several months in jail, the career criminal's claim he missed out on $4,000-a-month worth of home improvement work was questionable to say the least, The Boston Globe said Wednesday. Advertisement "Aldrich apparently found another way to support himself, and it was not doing home renovations," Suffolk Superior Judge Nancy Holtz wrote in her decision against Aldrich's compensation claim. Aldrich alleged in court papers the financial figure was based on work he routinely did under the table to avoid claiming such payments in his taxes. A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney supported Holtz's ruling in the case, which was prompted by a state law that allows compensation claims. "The defendant is a career B&E (breaking and entering) man seeking compensation for burglaries he couldn't commit while locked up," spokesman Jake Wark told the Globe of Aldrich, who had numerous breaking and entering priors. Advertisement
