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Q Research General #28814: OVER THE TARGET Edition
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A running list of the recent scandals embroiling the Massachusetts State Police
From the probes into alleged overtime pay theft to troopers saying they were ordered to alter the arrest report of a judge's daughter.
Massachusetts State Police Headquarters in Framingham. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe
By Dialynn Dwyer
July 2, 2018
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The arrests last week of three recently retired or suspended state troopers, accused of purloining thousands of dollars in 2016 for shifts they didn't work, is just the most recent development in months of scandals for the law enforcement agency.The rumblings over the theft of overtime pay by members of the Massachusetts State Police began more than a year ago, and, in that time, other claims of misconduct and issues in the department's payroll and financial accounting have emerged.Here's a timeline of when the prominent controversies and investigations the embattled department is facing surfaced in the public view.
March 2017:
Highest paid trooper in 2016 placed on desk duty amid investigation into overtime pay
WCVB reported that the highest paid trooper was placed on desk duty while the department investigated whether he worked all the hours he claimed in 2016. It was the second year that Trooper Eric Chin topped the state police payroll, earning $131,654 in overtime and $66,094 in other pay on top of his $104,653 base salary. Chin was later suspended without pay.
October 2017:
WCVB finds several troopers used 'questionable methods' to collect extra pay for work not performed
The station found during the course of a six-month investigation that several officers in the department's Troop E, the unit assigned to patrolling the Massachusetts Turnpike, collected "extra pay for work not done." Chin's lawyer told the station that manipulating tickets to boost overtime pay was a common practice by many troopers and supervisors within Troop E.
November 2017:
Two troopers file federal lawsuits alleging they were ordered by top commanders to alter a report on the arrest of a judge's daughter
Troopers Ryan Sceviour and Ali Rei filed federal lawsuits within days of each other alleging that top commanders in the department pressured them to alter the report on the arrest of Alli Bibaud, the daughter of a Worcester County judge, to remove embarrassing information.
Alli Bibaud, in court on Nov. 17, 2017.
Sceviour and Rei alleged they were forced to falsify the report by removing references to comments made by Bibaud about sex and her father's position during her arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs after she crashed her car on I-190. Rei alleged she was told to shred and redact reports containing crude statements by Bibaud, but she refused.
Gov. Charlie Baker, Attorney General Maura Healey, and the state Ethics Commission launched investigations into the altered report within the month. State police Col. Richard McKeon abruptly announced his retirement amid the allegations that he ordered Sceviour to alter the report.
Former state police Col. Richard McKeon.
Bibaud ultimately pleaded guilty to the charges against her and was sentenced to a total of 14 months probation, had her license suspended for a year, and ordered to complete a residential treatment program.
November 2017:
Kerry A. Gilpin is selected by Baker to take over leadership of the state police
On her first day, the new commander launched an investigation into the altered arrest report scandal.
January 2018:
Massachusetts State Police announce launch of investigation into whether officers were paid for shifts they didn't work
The department released few details but said that an ongoing internal audit revealed "payroll discrepancies" for officers assigned to patrol shifts designed to reduce accidents, according to The Boston Globe.
February 2018:
Trooper placed on paid leave after internal investigation into her hiring is launched
State police placed Trooper Leigha Genduso on leave and launched an internal affairs investigation after reports surfaced that the 36-year-old had been hired by the department as a dispatcher just a year after she had testified as a co-conspirator in a federal drug case, according to the Globe.
Trooper Leigha Genduso.
After being initially hired as a dispatcher, she became a trooper in 2014. She told the Globe that no one asked about her federal testimony during the hiring process.
According to the newspaper, she had been living with Daniel Risteen, then a state police major, for three years at the time of her application to the department in 2012. Risteen was one of the top officials accused of taking part in ordering the scrubbing of information from Bibaud's arrest report in the fall. He retired abruptly on the same day that Genduso was placed on leave.