Within the endless torrent of police corruption in Massachusetts, right here’s a bit of excellent information.
The unique poster boy for Massachusetts State Police corruption, as described by the feds, has lastly been thrown into jail, the place he’ll stay till July 2028.
No, I’m not speaking about Michael Proctor, the present poster boy for corruption within the State Police, along with his most up-to-date scandal being what the DA’s workplace admits is a cellphone filled with “intimate physique components of individuals not collaborating within the textual content chain.”
Wait, no matter occurred to Proctor’s earlier assertion: “No nudes thus far.” I suppose that assertion about his leering searches of Karen Learn’s cellphone is not operative.
However now that we discover out he does a cellphone filled with XXX-rated photographs, what will occur to all of the as-yet-unfired troopers on this textual content chain who had been getting nude photographs from obese, low-IQ Proctor.
However earlier than there was a Michael Proctor, the feds dubbed one other sleazy Statie because the “poster boy” of MSP corruption.
Think about the frenzied competitors within the crooked-cop sweepstakes to win such a coveted honor!
C’mon down, Daniel J. Griffin, age 62, Bureau of Prisons (BOP) quantity 21758-509.
How corrupt is Griffin? Properly, the feds’ sentencing memo on his legal profession ran 132 pages. This was their opening sentence, in boldface:
“Daniel Joseph Griffin is a legal.”
His m.o., the feds elaborated, “was benefiting from his badge to lie, cheat and steal.”
The G-men first recognized him as a criminal offense boss again in 2015 – a decade in the past! He was one of many hacks working the embezzlement grift out on the Turnpike. Because the G-men closed in, he ordered his minions to destroy the proof.
Naturally, a sometimes thorough State Police investigation in 2019 “fully exonerated” him, within the feds’ phrases. After all it did. It’s simply staties being staties. Skilled courtesy.
“Regardless of a number of Troopers being arrested, pleading responsible and being sentenced for time beyond regulation fraud from 2018 to 2019, the State Police absolved Griffin, its most prolific offender so far, in a matter of 4 months.”
It’s nearly sufficient to make you suppose Griffin perhaps had one thing on someone else. However nah, that’s not how the State Police function, wink wink nudge nudge.
Griffin was indicted in 2020, the identical 12 months he went out on “incapacity.” He began grabbing $10,913 a month whereas in such excruciating knee ache that he was in a position to go to Europe for what the sentencing memo describes as a “strolling Odyssey.”
I by no means thought they’d lock Griffin up. He simply bought away with a lot. He ran a “safety firm” and didn’t report $700,000 in revenue to the IRS.
He despatched his sons to la-de-dah Belmont Hill Faculty and fraudulently shook these pampered pukes down for $170,000 in scholar assist, claiming poverty as he purchased a mansion on the Cape and joined a personal golf membership.
Like recently-sentenced Gary Cederquist, the pinnacle of the CDL crew in Canton, Griffin ran his personal private “gang of thieves,” because the feds put it, “a legal cabal.” That’s the way in which it’s in organized crime, which is what the State Police are.
Within the Mob, you might have numerous crews working assorted rackets, and so they all kick up, whether or not it’s in wanting the opposite means (suppose Sandra Birchmore) or framing harmless individuals on behalf of the linked (suppose Karen Learn, or Fred Weichel).
So Griffin was the road boss of his stealing crew. His quantity two was Sgt. William W. Robertson, age 63. Robertson oddly didn’t file for a “incapacity,” as they nearly at all times do. So after he fled forward of the posse he needed to subsist on a mere $8,024 a month for 4 years.
Each Griffin and Robertson had been lastly convicted in Worcester in 2023, however the month-to-month kisses within the mail continued, till final September. That was a sufficiently big shock – crooked troopers are hardly stripped of their ill-gotten features.
However then I heard the much more unbelievable information that they’d each been lastly locked up for his or her unspeakably base legal careers.
Will wonders by no means stop?
Griffin is now incarcerated in a complicated Membership Fed, in Ashland, KY. He was once a Okay-9 officer, as did former drug-dealer and mob moll Leigha Genduso. So now he brags that his solely roommate is the canine he’s coaching. In different phrases, he’s getting yet one more mushy experience.
In the meantime, his crooked sidekick, Robertson, BOP # 21731-509, is locked up in one other good-time penitentiary in Beckley, WV. He’s scheduled to get out subsequent June.
Clearly, these are the uncommon exceptions that show the iron rule that while you’re within the State Police, crime does certainly pay. And pays very, very properly certainly. Behind which comes the pension.
I imply, for each Griffin, Cederquist or Robertson, there are perhaps a dozen or perhaps a rating of crooked troopers, retired, dwelling massive in Florida on their six-figure pensions with full well being plans.
After all Michael Proctor won’t ever make it to the Sunshine State, no less than not with that bloated kiss within the mail like all the remainder of them are pocketing. As he wastes away in Canton, unemployed and unemployable, he have to be asking himself, did I do something worse than, say, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox?
I imply, a lie is a lie is a lie, regardless of who you inform it to, it doesn’t matter what it entails.
A minimum of, although, Michael Proctor has one factor to take solace in – his cherished “photos of intimate bodily components of individuals not collaborating within the textual content chain.”
No nudes thus far? By no means thoughts! Michael Proctor lastly bought fortunate.
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