CANAAN – Sherry Miles 36, of Millerton, N.Y. offered to have sex with her paraplegic employer if he agreed not to press larceny charges against her.
Miles wasn’t the first of Benjamin Wohlfert’s acquaintances who have sought money from him in various ways since he made headlines six years ago, after a construction accident in Canaan he collected a record $23 million settlement for a 2006 .
Wohlfert 39 said “It has happened so often since the settlement that people have tried to take advantage of me,” . “I was angry about it. I’ve known her since she was a teenager.”
According to police, discrepancies and suspicious checking account activity involving Salisbury Bank and Trust Co. accounts were discovered by Wohlfert’s office manager, Melissa Gandolfo, in February.
Wohlfert owns the Canfield Business Group at 21 Railroad St., a real estate investment firm he formed in 2011 after he gained what was believed to be the largest pretrial settlement ever obtained in a Connecticut injury case. The case was filed against the Stop & Shop supermarket chain and Pyramid Construction of Providence, R.I.
Wohlfert’s spine was severed when he fell 40 feet from a makeshift pallet platform on a forklift during the construction of a Stop & Shop store in Canaan.
