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79-year-old Watertown real estate developer is a fugitive from justice

Eastern Bank. The Boston Globe

Robert H. Bray makes for an unlikely fugitive from justice.

He is 79 and suffers from various age-related health issues, according to court records. Two days before he was to report to federal prison to begin serving a two-year sentence for insider trading, he showed up at the emergency room at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge with a ruptured vein in his leg. A day later, his doctor recommended he see a vascular surgeon.

And then, apparently, he vanished. That was two weeks ago.

Federal authorities confirmed this week that they have launched a nationwide manhunt for the elderly Watertown real estate developer, who was convicted last year of securities fraud and ordered to spend two years at the federal prison in Devens for inmates with serious medical conditions.

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