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Contractor Took $60k Deposit From My Parents, Disappeared, We Won The Judgment Two Years Ago And Still Cannot Collect In Massachusetts

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Location: Boston, MA

My parents paid a contractor $60,000 as a deposit for a renovation. He took the money and disappeared without doing any work. We sued and about two years ago we won a judgment against him personally and against his single-member LLC. We also got a writ of execution. He has paid nothing. He doesn't show up to court dates and claims he has no personal assets because everything is in an empty LLC. He's in Norfolk County.

What's been done so far: our lawyer did a basic LLC search which turned up nothing, and we filed a report with the local police but they said it's a civil matter. The collection agency we hired just sent letters. Two years in, nothing has worked.

I've been reading about other tools that weren't used, and I want to know if they apply to our situation:

Does supplementary process under M.G.L. c. 224 §14 apply here, and if he keeps ignoring court, can a capias warrant actually be issued against a judgment debtor in Norfolk County District Court?

Given that the LLC appears to have no capitalization, no real operations, and was used to take a $60k deposit it couldn't fulfill, does this fit the factors under the veil piercing standard from Attorney General v. M.C.K., Inc.?

Under M.G.L. c. 109A, if he transferred assets to his wife or family within the last four years to avoid the judgment, is that reachable even though we don't have proof of specific transfers yet? Can post-judgment discovery be used to find them?

On the criminal side, we were told by local police it's civil only. But M.G.L. c. 266 §30 (larceny by false pretenses) seems to fit. Is the right move to bring a package directly to the Norfolk County DA's office rather than local police, and does multiple victims matter for whether they'll take it?

Just trying to understand which of these tools actually apply to the facts before we change lawyers. Thanks.

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