Environmental police chief canned for spying on staff and fixing tickets

I think Baker has seen the light with the firing of the head of the Environmental Cops. What's even more interesting maybe more revelations from terminated James McGinn about the what the leadership knows. Could there be more embarrassment fro Baker?

From Mass Live

In yet another police-related embarrassment for Gov. Charlie Baker, the state’s top environmental cop and Baker’s former campaign driver, James McGinn, was fired on Friday (of course it had to be a Friday) after an internal review found he was spying on staff and fixing traffic tickers. The Globe’s Danny McDonald and MassLive’s Gintautas Dumcius have the details (with MassLive having the full internal report). As for the spying, we’re talking about the hiring of an actual private detective and installing unauthorized surveillance cameras to snoop on one officer in particular “in order to determine if the officer was reporting for duty in accordance with his time records.” In other words, McGinn appears to have suspected that he had his very own State Police-like no-work problem. The Herald’s Howie Carr is all over the story: “McGinn’s lawyer said the firing was ‘politically motivated,’ as if the hiring wasn’t as well. But the most interesting thing the lawyer said was that his client, the hack ex-statie, now plans to expose ‘significant misconduct on the part of those holding supervisory responsibilities above him.’ You don’t say, Colonel? Anybody we know? I guess you could say, the head of the clam patrol doesn’t plan to clam up.”