Another Trooper indicted for another fraud scheme.
Matt Rocheleau from the Globe writes in today's paper, former State Police Trooper Lieutenant David Andrade of Westport, who was in charge of the Troop D Dartmouth Barracks, collected 11k worth of paid time off which he was not entitled to, according to AG Healey's office.
This current scheme has to do with holiday-related pay entries of supervisors holding similiar positions from a different group.
The former Trooper was defrauding the State months after the investigation started by the Fed's. His salary last year was around 192k, including 16k in overtime in 2018. He is collecting his retirement of 87k and started working for the agency in 1996.
According to the Ag's office, Andrade falsified entries on his attendance calendars to make it look like he was working on the days he took off.
The new Colonel Mason said they have instituted an explicit requirement that payroll entries can only be approved by a person of equal to or a higher rank.
This new policy makes no sense since we know that high ranking officers approved the fraud to begin with.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 11:22 AM
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2 Comments:
I know this is important, but really, is it news worthy? This is just one more story about one more corrupt state police officer. But at least this one has been indicted. Happy holidays Jim. Back at you after the new year
The one glaring reason why i wrote about this State Cop was that even after others were indicted or retired over the OT scandal, this cop was screwing the taxpayers by falsifying holiday and days off time sheets. He had to know about the others, but he just keep right on with his fraudulent behavior.
The culture of self entitlement at the State Police hasn't change a bit. I'm sure there are good cops on the force and the majority do their jobs, but the other bad apples need to go.
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