Trooper destroyed bogus traffic citations
The Feds have now more clear evidence of how State Cops got away with the OT scam. According to the Matt Rocheleau at the Globe, the carbon copies of the fake citations were destroyed. One of those copies went to the registry, courts and the offenders copy. It all makes sense now... faking the tickets and destroying the copies so no one was ever alerted. I wonder how much time he will get? In July he admitted to collecting 51k in OT for hours he didn't work in 2015 and 2016, the highest amount of money paid to any trooper involved with this scheme.
By Matt Rocheleau
Globe Staff March 21, 2019
In a court filing, US prosecutors
allege a former Massachusetts state trooper destroyed copies of traffic
citations as part of his scheme to put in for hundreds of hours of overtime pay
without doing the work.
Gregory Raftery, 48, of Westwood,
wrote “bogus” traffic citations and submitted one copy of each phony ticket to
the State Police to make it appear he had been working, according to a
sentencing memo filed Thursday by prosecutors in US Attorney Andrew E.
Lelling’s office.
Then, prosecutors said, he destroyed
the carbon copies of those fake citations instead of sending them to the courts
and the Registry of Motor Vehicles, which hold hearings and process fines and
penalties against drivers. He also destroyed the copies that would have gone to
the offenders. Falsifying and destroying traffic citations, or even attempting to
do so, is illegal under state law.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 12:11 PM
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10 Comments:
I had to throw this in under the State Police. You may remember hearing about this trooper who raped his girlfriend and abused her over 4 years in his home. He now has been convicted and is awaiting sentencing, but the fair news is.. he's being fired. Amen. And I believe he will not get a pension in prison.
• The Associated Press
Massachusetts State Police have started termination proceedings against a trooper who has been convicted of raping his former girlfriend.
Robert Sundberg was found guilty Wednesday of multiple charges, including rape, strangulation, assault and stalking.
The 48-year-old Sundberg was arrested after the victim, who is also a state trooper, reported she was attacked at his Boxborough home in April 2016. Prosecutors said the assault was the culmination of a long history of abuse.
State police say they immediately suspended Sundberg without pay after hearing of his arrest.
A state police spokesman said Wednesday they hope the verdict "proves justice to the victim," and that the department has no tolerance for domestic violence.
Sundberg is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.
Every day we hear more horror stories about the behavior of these state cops. When is the governor going to say enough is enough?
Will this cop go to jail for sure or is he going to walk away with a slap on the hand and probation
All cops get away with criminal behavior. It comes with the badge
Given the public outcry for justice lately I'm betting they both go away. The convicted rapist will go away longer imo.
Lets hope your right Jim
pretty soon the jails will be full of law enforcement and the street will be full of prisoners if this keeps up
there's at least 49 more State cops to go to trial.
Did you see the joke of a sentence this guy got? So much to having justice prevail
I'm more convinced than ever before...the courts are overly lenient with public safety employee's who have been convicted of felonies.
I hope he and the other 45 don't get their pensions.
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