Former Cohasset town employee charged in crypto-mining scheme due in court

24 July 2023

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A former Cohasset town employee accused of operating a cryptocurrency mine in a crawl space beneath the Cohasset Middle/High School is due in court Monday for a pretrial hearing, according to court records.

Nadeam Nahas, a former assistant facilities director for the town, is slated to appear in Quincy District Court, where he was arraigned in February on misdemeanor charges of fraudulent use of electricity and vandalizing a school. He pleaded not guilty.

Police said detectives were called to the school in December 2021 after the town’s facilities director discovered the alleged cryptocurrency mining operation.

The director told police he was conducting a routine inspection of the school when he noticed electrical wires, temporary duct work, and numerous computers that seemed out of place, police said.

After he contacted the town’s information technology director, “it was learned that this was a cryptocurrency mining operation which was unlawfully attached to the school electrical system,” police said.

Nahas resigned from his position in early 2022, police said. Nahas’s lawyer, Michael McCarthy, could not be immediately reached for comment.

Emily Sweeney can be reached at emily.sweeney@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @emilysweeney and on Instagram @emilysweeney22.

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