Jesse J. Clark, the wedding videographer accused of scamming more than 90 couples out of payments for wedding videos he never delivered, has run online wedding businesses during the past year despite several jail sentences and probation periods and a Suffolk Superior Court injunction
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After the criminal sentencing Thursday, Mr. Frye asked the court to order payment of roughly $20,000 to one of the couples who had won a civil judgment against Mr. Clark. Judge Bibaud said he would consider the civil matter after Mr. Clark serves his jail sentence.
Mr. Clark told the judge he had no ability to pay the judgments.
In January, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Judith Fabricant granted an injunction against Mr. Clark and his employee, Keith Morin, prohibiting them from engaging in videography or wedding-related services and from accepting consumer deposits for any kind of business in the future.
Attorney General Martha Coakley's office had previously obtained a temporary restraining order in Suffolk Superior Court that freezes Mr. Clark's and Mr. Morin's assets and prevents them from destroying any records, including footage.
The attorney general's lawsuit seeks more than $75,000 in restitution plus civil penalties and the full recovery of all existing event footage.
Mr. Frye said that the website for Mr. Clark's fifth wedding videography business, Wedding Filmology, includes footage from wedding videos that were never received by victims of Mr. Clark's previous alleged scams. The videos are in a gallery used to promote the business.
"One of the victim's friends recognized the wedding (video) because she had been there. The bride hadn't even seen it," Mr. Frye said. "As long as he has access to Internet, he's going to be stealing money from unsuspecting couples. It's most definitely going into a PayPal account and going somewhere."
