A disbarred lawyer accused of milking his clients out of some $2 million and who was arrested at Logan Airport with a one-way ticket to Iran has failed in his effort to cut off his GPS monitor.
Benjamin Tariri, 67 or 68, of Waltham, is accused of ripping off eight of his clients and seeking a fraudulent loan from a ninth that amounted to $1,926,855. As the justice system works through his case, Tariri has continually tried to have GPS monitoring removed from his conditions of pretrial release, an effort that has failed every time and did again on Thursday before the Supreme Judicial Court.
The allegations were first brought as a complaint in 2022 to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, which suspended him from practicing law. He appealed the suspension but was found in contempt of t

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