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Massachusetts State Police payroll chief charged with embezzlement.

 

After over a week of no new breaking badly bad news© breaking upon the Massachusetts State Police, a second piece of bad news broke on the state police in the wake of yesterday’s bad news.

 

The former payroll director of the state police is to be charged with alleged theft of department funds while on the job, following an investigation.

 

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The former payroll director will be arraigned on Monday at Framingham District Court on a count of larceny over $250 in connection with allegedly misappropriating more than $23,000 in travel and reimbursement funds, said Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Meghan Kelly.

 

State police its payroll director on unpaid and indefinite leave in November when a number of payroll “irregularities” were discovered.

 

Around the same time, an internal investigation started, Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said.

 

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“We noticed irregularities in some payroll data and conducted a further investigation,” Procopio added.

 

Still no word of indictments of any troopers paid for details not worked or command officers seeking the “scrubbing” of the arrest report of the daughter of a Worcester district court judge who was arrested for operating under the influence, however. 

Source: State police payroll chief charged 

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