Overview
- A federal judge sentenced Thomas Clasby Jr. to six months in prison, six months of home confinement and one year of supervised release after a June 17 sentencing for stealing municipal funds.
- Prosecutors say Clasby abused Quincy’s purchasing rules from 2019 onward to generate cash for personal use and charged municipal accounts for items such as studio recordings, a lacquered self‑portrait, a Toyota Prius and hundreds of pounds of steak.
- From June 2021 through mid‑April 2024 the Department of Elder Services collected more than $57,000 in Kennedy Center program cash and prosecutors say Clasby took the majority of those receipts from a program safe.
- Court filings show Clasby arranged for the city to pay more than $38,000 to a friend’s New York consulting company for services that were never provided and that the friend cashed checks and handed money to Clasby at several meeting points.
- Clasby was fired in April 2024, pleaded guilty in March 2026 to embezzlement, mail and wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property, and defense filings say he plans to repay the ordered restitution using available retirement funds by late August which raises questions about local controls and oversight of elder programs.