Investigations Loom – MA Court Reveals Probate Judge Candidate Bradley Illegally Hid $760K Bank Account, Falsified Income To Court And On Tax Returns In Child Support Case

Judge of Probate Candidate Mark Bradley illegally concealed a Massachusetts bank account with more than $750,000 passing through it during a two-year period, manipulated financial earnings to achieve lower child-support payments, falsified his financial holdings to the court, was paid as a lower rate W2 employee while claiming to be a partner at his family-owned law practice, underreported income to the IRS, and forged a client’s signature, according to a trial transcript testimony in 2025 involving a messy ongoing child support and custody case.

Ironically all of this has played out in a Massachusetts probate and family court, a Connecticut elected  position Bradley wants in Bridgeport. He is challenging long-time Probate Judge Paul Ganim, trying to qualify for an August Democratic primary via petition signatures.

Court testimony also revealed that multiple complaints have been lodged with the Massachusetts governing board that investigates lawyers.

The Connecticut State Election’s Enforcement Commission is also probing Bradley for having dual voter registrations, as a Republican in Massachusetts and Democrat in Bridgeport, casting ballots simultaneously in both states multiple times, a violation the states’ respective election laws.

Of particular concern to Judge Bernadette Stark last year was the revelation uncovered and revealed by the lawyer representing the mother of Bradley’s young daughter, the tremendous money flow through an account Bradley controlled with Rollstone Bank & Trust that he had not previously revealed, as he was required to do, in the child custody and support case.

“You opened an account, October 2023, representation of counsel and these bank statements indicate there were over $767,000 in deposits into this account,” the judge said, according to the court transcript.

Bradley opened the bank account in 2023 around the same time he became a partner in the Bradley Law Group, based on Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport, a satellite office in Massachusetts, joining his brother Dennis Bradley convicted by a federal jury in March on six counts of election fraud connected to his 2018 run for state senate.

The opposing lawyer also disclosed that the Bradley Law Group also established an account with Rollstone bank during a period the firm was doing a lot of work, and receiving sizable payouts, at the direction of Ty Bird, the court-removed leader of the board at Success Village whose residents endured a nightmare of no heat, hot water and millions missing from the co-op’s bank accounts under investigation by the FBI that raided his home last week.

Danielle Thomason, the attorney representing the wife of Bradley’s child, also disclosed in court the FBI was investigating Bradley’s financial dealings.

The Rollstone bank revelation led Judge Stark to admonish Bradley severely, according to the court hearing transcript reviewed by OIB.

“I don’t know what the status of your law license is going to be after these proceedings, but now all of us have an obligation to get in touch with the BBO (Board of Bar Overseers) based even just on your representation here today that you intentionally misrepresented material facts on a financial statement which is signed to under the pains and penalty of perjury. I don’t know if you’re going to be able to call yourself attorney for much longer when all this hits the fan, because this is serious. This is extremely serious violations of your ethical obligations, of your duties as an officer of the court.”

The judge added during the hearing “but you never provided copies — you’ve never disclosed this account?”

Bradley replied: “I’ve never disclosed this account to Attorney Thomason; I never disclosed this account to my attorneys. So I am falling on the sword on this.”

The lawyers representing Bradley, Saman Wilcox and Mandy Herbert, declared an extraordinary measure at the start of the hearing that they were withdrawing legal representation of Bradley because he “made some significant material misrepresentations on on each and every financial statement that he has provided to the court…”

Attorney Thomason emphasized, after revealing the concealed  bank account, “…we have to understand if he’s willing to lie to this court as an officer of the court after being warned by Judge Smola who said to him on the record, ‘I don’t believe a word coming out of your mouth.'”

In addition, court testimony revealed, Bradley invested $90,000 in a Massachusetts restaurant while fighting child support payments. The opposing lawyer declared that Bradley had become a W2 employee of his family-run law firm and reported to the IRS about $50,000 a year while not reporting the larger financial holdings to the IRS or the court-required financial statement.

“This woman is raising two children, was full time school, full time working, paying more money in daycare for his daughter than she was receiving in child support,” Thomason noted to the court on behalf of the mother of Bradley’s daughter.

Also disclosed at the hearing was a bar complaint filed by a Mark Bradley client claiming the lawyer forged his name on a $5,000 insurance check that was deposited into Bradley’s account.

The court ordered Bradley to come clean on all financial holdings. It also ordered Bradley to pay $677 in child support each week via assignment through the Department of Revenue Support Enforcement.

Bradley, apparently, didn’t get the message.

A few months later attorney Thomason, on behalf of the mother of his child, then filed a complaint for civil contempt asserting Bradley had failed to pay the child support as ordered and “is in arrears of $5,330.”

She added that “Father’s Financial Statement failed to disclose a complete and accurate statement of his income, assets and liabilities.

The case is still active, and has drawn out for several years.