James J. Cicarella, 36, was sentenced Tuesday by New Haven Superior Court Judge Patrick Clifford, according to online court records. Cicarella was sentenced after entering a no contest plea to first-degree larceny charges stemming his August 2016 arrest by Madison police.
Cicarella led an elderly Wallingford woman to believe she was giving him money to cover medical insurance and health care, police said in an affidavit filed in support of the arrest warrant application.
He actually used the money to buy jewelry, electronics and a house as well as furniture and a Cadillac Escalade.
The woman initially sued Cicarella after Wallingford police declined to investigate her complaint, calling it a civil matter. But her lawyer later contacted Madison police after he learned additional information under oath during the civil litigation, the affidavit said.
Among other things, in testimony in the civil case, Cicarella admitted that he wasn’t sick and didn’t use the funds for the purposes stated at the time, according to the affidavit. Madison police pursued the case.
Cicarella was charged with defrauding the woman of $578,466 in 2013 and 2014. Town records show Cicarella bought his two-story home on Yankee Peddler Path in December 2013 for $349,000.
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I hope he serves every day of it.
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