Overview: A Middlesex County Superior Court jury found Joseph Cuzzupoli liable for fraud and breach of contract involving several western Massachusetts nursing homes. He explained that Cuzzupoli convinced him into loaning money by saying the nursing homes’ nurses would not otherwise get paid. According to Pineault, Balter learned in or about mid-May 2023 that the nursing homes were in dire financial straits. The records also showed transfers made out of nursing home accounts to pay amounts owed on Cuzzupoli’s personal credit card. “Cuzzupoli specified the accounts to which Balter was instructed to transfer the monies ostensibly being loaned to the nursing homes,” Pineault wrote.