District Attorneys forced to toss cases involving suspended Massachusetts State Trooper

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District Attorneys forced to toss cases involving suspended Massachusetts State Trooper.

Prosecutors are being forced to throw out criminal cases because of the involvement of a state trooper who has been suspended without pay and is now under investigation herself reports WCVB Channel 5 News 5 Investigates.

Massachusetts State Police are  investigating statements and representations made during Trooper Leigha Genduso’s hiring process following a report she was allegedly involved in a large-scale drug operation before becoming a police dispatcher and later a state trooper.

Selfie of Lieutenant Governor Polito and now-suspended Genduso at a big ticket party

Trooper Genduso is also a former girlfriend of a senior state trooper who has since retired under fire following another scandal involving the Massachusetts State Police.

Genduso is also said to be especially friendly with various other various ranking state troopers both current serving and retired as well as perhaps also Lieutenant Governor Karen Polito.

While the top number of cases dropped is likely to be much fewer than the tens of thousands dropped care of the Annie D0ookan state drug lab scandal or the upwards of eight thousand case also dropped care of drug-addicted former state drug lab worker Sonja Farak.

Not amused, especially in an election year
An Angela Rowlings/Boston Herald image.

Governor Charlie Baker said he is not familiar with the details of the cases being dismissed; however, he was firm in his statement about Trooper Genduso: “she is suspended without pay, as she should be for misrepresenting and falsifying information when she applied to the department.”

Massachusetts State Police say their investigation into Leigha Genduso is progressing, and once completed, the agency claims that it will take appropriate action commensurate with the results of its investigation.

Genduso’s attorney declined to comment on the investigation.

State Police also say as part of her ongoing reforms, Massachusetts State Police Chief Colonel Kerry Gilpin has increased the staffing in the department’s Internal Affairs Section so as to expedite internal investigations.

Source: DAs forced to toss cases involving suspended trooper

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