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Article: Tangled web; More of McManus' stories continue to unravel.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2009
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Byline: Thomas Caywood
The smooth-talking former Paxton man, who once mingled with Worcester's business and political elite, wore his guises effortlessly by all accounts.
As far as anyone knew, Kevin B. McManus was an engineer, just like it said on the business cards he handed out here and in Florida. He talked his way into a lucrative consulting job near Tampa late last year. He even was hired to testify in March as an engineering expert in a construction lawsuit in Brookline.
And Mr. McManus, 46, the former owner of the now-defunct Everest Construction Inc. of Westboro, was striding around Florida's Gulf Coast wearing the camouflage uniform ...