[1] In 1997 Kasparian and the commission pitched a proposal to the New England Patriots for a new stadium on a site in Agawam, Massachusetts.
[9] During the 1996 county commissioner's race, Kasparian's criminal record was leaked to one of his opponents, Richard S. Thomas, who then turned it over to the Union-News.
Most of the charges had been dismissed, but he did receive a six-month suspended sentence in 1972 for fraudulently accepting $900 in welfare payments.
Kasparian had been ordered to make repairs an apartment building in Springfield, Massachusetts he owned as a result of a two-year court case.
After Kasparian had failed to begin work despite racking up $2,100 in $100-a-day fines, Abraskin jailed him in order to get him to comply.
During the meeting, Kasparian allegedly begged his wife not to divorce him before attacking her with a butcher knife he brought to the restaurant.