And so, farewell, disgraced ex-state trooper Calvin Butner, hit with a slap on the wrist in federal court docket for his kleptomania yesterday.
Three months in jail, for a shameful profession that started again in 1983 with the beyond-corrupt Metropolitan Police – the Mets.
However now comes the way more essential $6,020-a-month query for ex-Met Butner.
How lengthy does the corrupt 64-year-old convicted felon proceed pocketing his ill-gotten month-to-month kiss within the mail?
Dozens upon dozens of State Police have been arrested over the previous few years – feds are the one best hazard dealing with troopers every day.
However of all of the troopers lugged recently, Butner could have suffered essentially the most humiliating pinch.
It was January 2024, and he had fled to Florida, very similar to the Excessive Sheriff of Suffolk County, Steve Tompkins, final week. Butner and his spouse have been happening a pleasant winter cruise out of the Port of Miami.
Sadly, it was to not be. Because the ship ready to depart port, the G males arrived, handcuffed the thug and dragged him away.
Mrs. Calvin Butner remained on the ship. She wasn’t giving up her winter cruise, nosireebob.
Butner is the final to plead responsible from this MSP RICO conspiracy – promoting business drivers’ licenses.
This crew was primarily based in, the place else, Norfolk County. Stoughton, to be actual, which is subsequent door to Canton. Want I point out that the district legal professional and his crack MSP sleuths knew completely nothing about what was happening, actually beneath their noses?
Meatball, Yuriy et al. have been too busy making an attempt to border Karen Learn and pretending that Sandra Birchmore had dedicated suicide subsequent door in Canton.
So what occurs subsequent, now that the bloated Butner has been sentenced?
The “guidelines,” comparable to they’re, say {that a} crooked cop can’t be stripped of his pension till after his conviction. Wink wink nudge nudge. However most of those crooked staties simply maintain slurping on the trough, ceaselessly.
For example, contemplate the opposite members of Butner’s shakedown crew, all of whom at the moment are convicted felons.
There’s ex-Sgt. Gary Cederquist. He was the capo of this MSP racket. He made $331,620 in 2023, his final yr of fulltime stealing. (His non-racketeering brother, Det. Lt. William Cederquist, has been pocketing much more gelt — $439,060 in 2023 and $407,100 final yr.)
Gary Cederquist “retired” in January of final yr and has been pocketing $8,862 a month since.
Joel Rogers was one other one on the crew. He’s a felon grabbing $6,486 a month. Perry Mendes, out since April 2022, one other convicted felon statie, stays on the dole for $7,230 a month.
They known as themselves the “golden” crew, as in golden handshakes. Anyone who wished to, you realize, do the fitting factor, might get a CDL to drive an enormous scary truck, no questions requested. Whereas lots of the assorted flim-flams these troopers run are to not be inspired, in actuality they’ve restricted affect on public security.
However promoting CDL’s to unlawful aliens and different assorted thugs – that may have “probably dire public security penalties,” because the feds famous of their sentencing memo yesterday.
The golden crew certainly. It’s extra like they have been giving a golden bathe to the law-abiding residents of the Commonwealth.
However perhaps issues are beginning to change, not less than a little bit bit. Within the wake of the failed lynching of Karen Learn, I’ve been engaged on a brand new e-book, “Mass Corruption, Vol. 1: The Cops.”
I just lately checked on the pensions of a number of the largest thieves that I used to be writing about. And guess what – not less than three of the most important MSP thieves have had their pensions halted.
One was Dan Griffin, as soon as described by the feds as “the poster boy of State Police corruption.” This was earlier than Michael Proctor, in fact, however on the time it was an correct description.
He was one of many architects of the Troop E embezzlement. Busted, he destroyed years price of data. He additionally cheated the Belmont Hill Faculty, claiming poverty. He cheated on his taxes.
After doing nothing however stealing for 20-plus years, the State Police exonerated him in 2019 of each single cost. It’s in his federal sentencing report – you may look it up. It’s known as skilled courtesy.
After all Griffin is a convicted felon, however beginning in December 2020 he started pocketing $10,913 a month. Incapacity, wouldn’t you realize it. Who knew kleptomania was an actual illness? At the very least for state troopers.
Griffin had an equally bent sidekick named William Robertson. He was indicted and but nonetheless collected $7,922 a month.
Think about my shock once I simply appeared them up on the Comptroller’s web site and each these rotten crooks have had their pensions suspended – since final September!
I used to be shocked. So I checked out Dana Pullman, the thuggish ex-boss of the union, State Police Affiliation of Mass (SPAM). His $65,000-plus pension has likewise been halted – since 2023, as he awaits resentencing on a bunch of felony convictions.
Then final week, the Supreme Judicial Court docket (SJC) refused to revive the pension of one other sticky-fingered member of Troop E, Gregory Raftery. His fundamental argument to the courts was, “No one advised me I couldn’t steal. I used to be a state trooper. How was I purported to know that embezzlement was towards the legislation?”
I admit, these seem to principally be the exceptions that show the rule. The overwhelming majority of convicted-felon state cops proceed to chortle all the way in which to the financial institution. And the financial institution is in Florida.
However perhaps it is a begin.
I requested the State Police in the event that they wished to challenge an official assertion about how the State Retirement Board was lastly, belatedly doing one thing about this decades-long MSP crime wave.
No one ever obtained again to me. Possibly they need to maintain it beneath their Smokey Bear hats.
In spite of everything, consider how badly it would have an effect on morale if the troopers be taught that stealing is now a punishable offense within the Mass State Police.
Absolutely the brass can’t ban stealing with out going into binding arbitration with SPAM. This might be a serious claw-back, one thing for collective bargaining.
Dana Pullman couldn’t be reached for remark.