Llewellyn officially terminated following guilty plea
Date: 9/19/2013
By Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.comEAST LONGMEADOW – Courtney Llewellyn is now officially a former employee of the town of East Longmeadow.
The Board of Selectmen formally terminated her employment at its Sept. 17 meeting.
Llewellyn pleaded guilty on Sept. 5 to charges of perjury, forgery, larceny under $250, interference with an election official, and conspiracy related to a voter fraud scheme concocted and carried out by herself and her husband, former Selectman Enrico Villamaino.
“We didn’t address this sooner because the plea happened in between meetings, but we’re able to deal with it tonight,” Board of Selectmen Chair Paul Federici, said.
Llewellyn, who told the court she currently works at a retail clothing store in the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside and from home as a book editor, is currently serving a sentence that includes probation and 200 hours of community service, but no jail time.
Llewellyn was employed as a projects coordinator for East Longmeadow Cable Access Television, making roughly $27,000 a year, and also worked part time in the Town Clerk’s Office.
District Attorney Mark Mastroianni said in court proceedings that Llewellyn’s employment in the Clerk’s Office was a major part of the scheme to change more than 280 registered Democrats’ enrollment statuses to unenrolled for the purpose of taking out absentee ballots in their names to cast votes in Villamaino’s favor in the 2012 Republican primary for state representative of the Second Hampden District.
At Villamaino’s insistence, Llewellyn was trained in the use the statewide voter registration database in the Clerk’s Office. With the knowledge, she and Villamaino changed enrollment statuses after entering the office after hours.
She also admitted to forging signatures on absentee ballot requests and bringing those requests into the office and processing them.
When investigations by Secretary of State William Galvin’s office, as well as law enforcement at the direction of Mastroianni’s office, began to unfold, Llewellyn was suspended with pay. Shortly after her arrest on Oct. 16, 2012, she was placed on administrative leave without pay.
