A former New Bedford scalloper who was driven out of business by what an independent investigator called regulators' excessive and unfair penalties is suing the federal government.
Larry Yacubian's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for lost wages, lost property and emotional damages. In a claim earlier this year, rejected by federal agencies, he asked for USD 15 million.
Yacubian was refunded USD 400,000 in fines in 2011 and received letters of apology from top federal officials. But in an interview Monday he said that didn't make up for a malicious and abusive prosecution that destroyed his life's work.
"I was banished to the gulag. I couldn't work again in a profession that I had been in for years," Yacubian said in an interview Monday.
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