WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Nearly 100 trees in Wellesley were illegally cut down last week after a landscaping company was hired to cut down just two trees that had been damaged by wind.

The tree cutters were supposed to take down two trees on the Weston property of Atlanta Hawks owner Steve Belkin, but the crew cleared out almost an acre of woods.

"They devastated the area, it's sickening. It's all my fault," said Belkin's property manager Bob Campana, who hired the crew.

"Apparently when they cut some they got hung up in other trees and they cut them down and it was like a domino effect," Campana said.

Campana told the Wellesley Natural Resources Commission that he hasn’t been able to sleep since the trees were cut at the Boulder Brook Reservation.

NRC Executive Director Janet Hartke Bowser told our news partner WickedLocal Wellesley that a fine will be based on the size and type of the trees destroyed.

Belkin who was out of the country said he doesn’t expect to pay the fine himself. “I didn’t have anything to do with it,” he told WickedLocal.