Can the people of Massachusetts just go into court and get a restraining order against the Massachusetts State Police?
According to the state website, the abuse-prevention law (Chapter 209A) “is there to protect you against someone who is abusing you.”
Can anyone deny that state troopers have been for a good many years now abusing the Commonwealth’s citizens?
Not just Karen Read, or Sandra Birchmore, or Angelo Schettino, or Enrique Delgado-Garcia – to name just a few of the more high-profile victims of assorted MSP crimes, frame-ups or cover-ups, living or dead, mostly dead.
I’m talking about the abuse so many of us suffer every day from these corrupt, disgraced cops every damn day of the week.
And even if you are not directly harassed by the MSP, then what about the absurd funny money they’re all making, even though most of them appear to have dropped out of a GED class – for the fourth grade.
Today, two more staties will be in court. One is disgraced Sgt. Scott Quigley, a second-generation hack trooper charged with OUI in a December 2023 fatal motor vehicle accident. Despite recording a .114 BAC at the hospital, the trooper was never punished.
In fact, Quigley was promoted to sergeant and made $173,960 last year.
The investigating MSP officer, who wrote Quigley a warning for killing a disabled man while recording a BAC of .114, was likewise promoted, to lieutenant. Her name is Jen Penton, and she’s going to be in court today too, on a different charge.
Perjury.
Question: do local courthouses have separate waiting rooms now – like the airlines’ courtesy lounges at Logan – for all the troopers awaiting their days in court?
So the LEO’s don’t have to mingle with the hoi polloi, those of us who don’t get six-figure pensions after filing for, ahem, disability at age 45 or 50?
But Quigley and Penton are only the celeb dirty cops, the latest versions of Michael Proctor, who by the way is currently desperately trying to stop his XXX-rated cell phone records from going into the public record in a Karen Read civil suit.
Consider what other MSP scandals have been uncovered in just the past few weeks. The feds just bagged a statie for COVID welfare fraud – with such a mega-grift, maybe a trillion dollars stolen, it was only natural that at least one statie (so far) has been bagged.
The first one to go down is one Damian Halfkenny, who owned a few rental units in Boston. In 2019, the G-men say in their charging document, he reported no payroll expenses in his side business, which actually lost $8714.
But then came the COVID hoax, and the welfare scams exploded. It was like they were blowing a kind of dog whistle, only for scammers instead of canines. Paging all Mass state troopers….
Soon, to cash in on the new scam, Trooper Halfkenny was fabricating tax returns, claiming “a net profit of $101,856” instead of red ink.
This crooked trooper also claimed a monthly payroll of $8488. The feds gave him $21,220. Meanwhile, he was raking in the big MSP bucks — $161,000 in 2024.
It takes a while for the feds to develop these cases, and so it was that last May Halfkenny decided to, you know, retire. In addition to his $99,083-a-year pension, he walked away with $68,032 in “leave buy back.”
And now the trooper will plead guilty to wire fraud, make “restitution” (yeah, right). As his punishment he will get, wait for it, one year’s probation.
Seriously, c’mon feds. I know it’s professional courtesy, and sentencing guidelines, but really. Probation? And you know damn well he keeps the $99,000 pension.
You see why I say we taxpayers need a restraining order to protect us from this mob of gangsters with badges?
How about Trooper Michael Gagnon of Plympton. He was arrested last November for allegedly punching one of his young children “in the face with a closed fist.” Then he told them to lie to the local cops and say the boy was accidentally struck with a whiffle-ball bat.
Now he’s been lugged again and his bail revoked. Apparently drones have been spotted flying over his estranged wife’s home, and then flying back in the direction of property owned by the rotten cop’s grandfather.
According to the Plympton police, two days after the drone was spotted flying overhead last month, her 4-year-old son “came home from his court-ordered visit with Michael (the crooked statie) talking about drones and the police.
“She reported that the child described, in detail, how to operate a drone using his thumbs and the joystick, and that he had flown one during the day’s visit.”
Imagine if this statie had devoted as much attention to arresting bad guys. Last year, before his suspension, Gagnon made $107,070. And now he’s an expert on drones. As he told his 4-year-old son:
“His drone is invisible and that the police have drones that can see and hear everything you do as well.”
Then there was the statie just arrested in the South End at 5 a.m. by the Boston police with an open can of High Noon in his console….
The State Police need to be abolished, ASAP. They’re a menace to the general public.
At the old St. Patrick’s Day breakfasts at Halitosis Hall, Whitey Bulger’s brother Billy used to make a joke about the City of Somerville, which back then had a few problems with the Winter Hill Gang, a crew that did much less damage to the neighborhood than the MSP does to the state on a daily basis.
“Why don’t they just build a wall around the entire city,” Billy Bulger would muse, “and give everybody inside 3 to 5?”
I feel the same way about the Mass State Police. They operate out of Framingham, on Route 9, in what they call GHQ – General Headquarters.
Why don’t we just build a wall around GHQ and give everybody… well 3-to-5 isn’t nearly enough.
Let’s make the sentence 5 to 10 years. And to make sure nobody escapes, we’ll keep some of Trooper Gagnon’s drones patrolling overhead.