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.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/21/mass-state-police-trooper-destroyed-records-cover-overtime-fraud-scheme-feds-allege/uRPvvv28BeRpzS1qo189VJ/story.html

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.