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Former leaders of Holyoke Soldiers' Home change pleas in neglect case
Many families who lost loved ones were frustrated by the fates of Bennett Walsh and David Clinton, who will only have to follow court-set conditions for three months – and serve no jail time – after changing their pleas to an admission of sufficient facts....
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Ex-Holyoke Soldiers' Home leader to change plea
The former head of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home is expected to face a judge Tuesday. This all centers on the deaths of more than 70 veterans at the home four years ago at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ex-Holyoke Soldiers' Home leader set for change-of-plea hearing in COVID outbreak case
Dozens of military veterans who lived in the Holyoke facility died of COVID-19, one of the deadliest outbreaks in a U.S. long-term care facility during the pandemic
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Possible plea deal in Holyoke Soldiers' Home case
Bennett Walsh, the former head of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, is expected before a Massachusetts judge Tuesday for a change-of-plea hearing in his criminal case over the COVID outbreak that left dozens of elderly veterans dead in 2020.
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Holyoke Soldiers' Home Faces New Class-Action Lawsuit From Employees
Employees at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where dozens of veterans died during an outbreak at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, are calling for accountability.
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Holyoke Soldiers' Home Faces New Class Action Lawsuit
In a lawsuit, an employee accuses managers and supervisors at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home of making a series of “criminally catastrophic decisions” in their mishandling of COVID-19 in the facility.
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Top Mass. Court Hears Arguments Over Holyoke Soldiers' Home Leaders Charges
More than 70 people died in the COVID-19 outbreak in the home for veterans at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, one of the deadliest such outbreaks at a U.S. long-term care facility.
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Top Mass. Court Hears Holyoke Soldiers Home COVID Appeal
Massachusetts’ highest court heard a case over whether two former leaders of the Holyoke Soldiers Home should face charges over the deadly COVID outbreak in 2020.
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Former National Guard Col. Tapped to Lead Holyoke Soldiers Home
The trustees that govern the Holyoke Soldiers Home have tapped its first permanent leader since the aftermath of a COVID-19 outbreak that killed dozens of veterans died there, sources tell the NBC10 Investigators. Mike Lazo, a licensed nursing home administrator, was appointed by the Board of Trustees, sources say. He is a former colonel of the Massachusetts National Guard who…