Most State Police troopers implicated in overtime fraud scandal will keep their jobs

[Nevilledog]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/10/metro/most-state-police-troopers-implicated-overtime-fraud-scandal-will-keep-their-jobs/


Massachusetts State Police Colonel Christopher S. Mason announced in January that the department would move to fire 22 troopers who had committed overtime fraud and were found to have collected thousands of dollars in pay for hours they never worked.

But this week the department revealed that most of the troopers implicated — but never criminally charged in a widespread payroll scandal — will get to keep their jobs after all. And they will likely keep their pensions.

The department announced late Thursday that 15 troopers will be suspended for various lengths of time and ordered to pay restitution. One trooper has been fired, and the department intends to fire five more once their disciplinary cases come to a close.

But the suspended officers will get to keep their jobs and could be back on the road in the coming weeks, according to department spokesman David Procopio.

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[Voltaire2]

1. In just about any other job falsifying your hours

gets you terminated.

[Nevilledog]

3. Absolutely.

[Mariana]

4. They should all be prosecuted. nt.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Pretty much the only way a cop can get in serious trouble

is to act as a whistle-blower, or otherwise fail to cover the asses of other cops.

[Nevilledog]

6. Yup.

[onethatcares]

7. drug test them

if they thought they could get away with falsifying O T, they probably have done a lot worse.