Former TelexFree CEO to plead guilty in $3b pyramid scheme

James Merrill of Ashland, who rose from cleaning company owner to chief executive of TelexFree, will face a federal judge in Worcester on Monday to plead guilty to numerous counts of wire fraud for his role in an enterprise that ensnared nearly 1 million people, many of them housekeepers, painters, and other working people. Read the full story here.