Excoriated By Massachusetts Judge, Probate Candidate Mark Bradley In Crosshairs Of Child-Support Payment Scam

Bridgeport Judge of Probate candidate Mark Bradley, in hot water for registering simultaneously as a Democrat in Bridgeport and Republican in Massachusetts in violation of respective state laws, faces deeper trouble accused of child-payment arrears, falsifying financial statements to camouflage earnings, his own lawyer withdrawing from the case because he made “material misrepresentations” and a Massachusetts judge placing into question the future of his law license and referral to the state body that investigates complaints against lawyers in Massachusetts.

A hearing last July before Massachusetts Judge Bernadette Stark produced explosive revelations of Bradley falsifying documents that led to the withdrawal of his attorney, approved by the court.

The circumstances led Judge Stark to admonish Bradley, according 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.”

A lawyer representing the mother of Bradley’s five-year-old daughter, as well as Bradley’s departing lawyer, both brought attention to Bradley’s “significant material misrepresentations on each and every financial statement that he had provided to the court…”

A flashpoint of the proceedings emerged when it was disclosed Bradley had hidden a bank account “with $767,000 in and out of this bank account the last 23 months” and receiving Mass Health benefits while in arrears with child care payments.

In addition, court testimony revealed, Bradley invested $90,000 in a Massachusetts restaurant. The opposing lawyer declared that Bradley had become a W2 employee of his family-run law firm and reported to the IRS “maybe fifty something dollars a year” while not reporting the larger financial holdings to the IRS or 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,” attorney Danielle Thomason noted to the court on behalf of the mother of Bradley’s daughter.

She also asserted the FBI was looking into Bradley’s financial dealings.

The judge asked Bradley “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.”

Because it disadvantaged his position? He got caught.

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.

“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, 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 give and take of this probate case is still pending, as well as the question of Bradley’s law license.

OIB previously reported Bradley voted egregiously in multiple city elections since 2018 while also simultaneously casting ballots in the state of Massachusetts as a registered Republican, according to records provided by respective election officials.

Court records also show that he has established a clear residency in Massachusetts under his own signature while also enrolled in the state of Massachusetts healthcare program. His children also attend school in Massachusetts.

While voting in Bridgeport multiple times over the past eight years, the start of which was on behalf of his brother, former State Senator Dennis Bradley, Mark Bradley also did not register a motor vehicle in Bridgeport until it coincided recently with his formal candidacy for judge of probate, avoiding car taxes paid to the city. He’s using his family law office in Bridgeport as voting address on Fairfield Avenue. The family also has a law office in Massachusetts.

Dennis Bradley was recently convicted by a federal jury in New Haven on six counts of wire fraud connected to his 2018 run for the state legislature. The charges cost him his senate seat in a 2022 primary loss to Herron Gaston.

Mark Bradley is challenging long-term Democratic Judge of Probate Paul Ganim.