Healy-Rae and GAA star write letters of support for Kerry siblings ahead of NY fraud trial

Two Kerry siblings convicted of payroll-related fraud at a major New York building firm will today learn if they are to be jailed

Photo: Navillus Contracting

“Helen and Dónal didn’t hire me or people like me to take advantage of us and save some money. Truth is, these jobs could have easily been completed without me and the others like me. I firmly believed they hired us to help us. Many of the people I worked side by side with were workers who otherwise wouldn’t have had a job.” 

So wrote Vincent La Penta, former Navillus employee, in a letter to Judge Pamela Chen, of the US District Court, in the Eastern District of New York, who will today decide whether to jail Kerry siblings, Dónal and Helen O’Sullivan, for their role in a multi-year payroll fraud, that deprived union workers of certain benefits, that should have been paid on their behalf into unions benefits funds.