Within the never-ending torrent of police corruption in Massachusetts, right here’s a bit of fine 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 to this point.” I assume 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? Nicely, the feds’ sentencing memo on his prison profession ran 132 pages. This was their opening sentence, in boldface:
“Daniel Joseph Griffin is a prison.”
His m.o., the feds elaborated, “was benefiting from his badge to lie, cheat and steal.”
The G-men first recognized him as against the law 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 usually thorough State Police investigation in 2019 “fully exonerated” him, within the feds’ phrases. In fact it did. It’s simply staties being staties. Skilled courtesy.
“Regardless of a number of Troopers being arrested, pleading responsible and being sentenced for extra time 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 assume Griffin possibly had one thing on any person else. However nah, that’s not how the State Police function, wink wink nudge nudge.
Griffin was indicted in 2020, the identical yr he went out on “incapacity.” He began grabbing $10,913 a month whereas in such excruciating knee ache that he was capable of 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 earnings 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 pupil assist, claiming poverty as he purchased a mansion on the Cape and joined a non-public golf membership.
Like recently-sentenced Gary Cederquist, the top of the CDL crew in Canton, Griffin ran his personal private “gang of thieves,” because the feds put it, “a prison cabal.” That’s the way in which it’s in organized crime, which is what the State Police are.
Within the Mob, you will have numerous crews working assorted rackets, they usually all kick up, whether or not it’s in trying the opposite manner (assume Sandra Birchmore) or framing harmless individuals on behalf of the related (assume 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 large enough shock – crooked troopers are hardly stripped of their ill-gotten positive aspects.
However then I heard the much more unbelievable information that they’d each been lastly locked up for his or her unspeakably base prison careers.
Will wonders by no means stop?
Griffin is now incarcerated in a complicated Membership Fed, in Ashland, KY. He was a Ok-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 delicate trip.
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 whenever you’re within the State Police, crime does certainly pay. And pays very, very effectively certainly. Behind which comes the pension.
I imply, for each Griffin, Cederquist or Robertson, there are possibly a dozen or perhaps a rating of crooked troopers, retired, dwelling massive in Florida on their six-figure pensions with full well being plans.
In fact Michael Proctor won’t ever make it to the Sunshine State, a minimum of 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, irrespective of who you inform it to, it doesn’t matter what it includes.
No less than, although, Michael Proctor has one factor to take solace in – his cherished “photographs of intimate bodily components of individuals not collaborating within the textual content chain.”
No nudes to this point? By no means thoughts! Michael Proctor lastly bought fortunate.
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