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Now former head of the state police
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Attorney General Maura Healy says no criminal charges in Massachusetts State Police report-altering scandal.
In time honored damage control fashion, Attorney General Healy made this announcement on a Friday so as to perhaps endeavor to take advantage of the usually slow weekend news cycle over the fact that she is apparently incapable of indicting a ham sandwich.
To review the whitewashing white paper review that Massachusetts Attorney General Healey commissioned, read all about it and more here.
The Untouchables
A Desilu Productions imageAdding insult to injury, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said that she will be referring the case to the State Ethics Commission for potential civil ethics violations and thus so essentially stall for time until toothless recommendations might be promulgated in – say – a year or thereabouts by the ethics commission.
Apparently, no one in the Massachusetts AG’s office considered the viability of making a RICO referral to the feds.
Judge’s daughter at her arraignment
A WBZ TV still imageAfter all, a senior official within the Worcester District Attorney’s office making a request of the now former head of the State Police to do a favor for the daughter of a Worcester District Court judge by “sanitizing” her arrest report sure sounds like a possible conspiracy committed by those who most definitely should not be trading favors to cover up a “favor” offered by the daughter and who is also a former Worcester District Attorney Office employee.
A cold day at hot mess central
A Matt Stone/Boston Herald imageMassachusetts Attorney General Healey’s punting could further be seen as her following up on her call earlier this year that Governor Baker should show leadership on the larger hot mess of scandals involving the Massachusetts State Police.
So what, apparently, for the fact that she is the person tasked with assuring the prosecution of misdeeds in the Commonwealth. says she is referring the case to the State Ethics Commission for potential civil ethics violations.
Source: AG Says No Criminal Charges In State Police Report-Altering Scandal
Healey will have an opponent this fall. Jay McMahon. He knows that it is the AG’s job to investigate and prosecute crimes. It is not the job of the AG to pass off serious matters to the useless Ethics Commission or to file frivolous lawsuits.