Hos much did the Karen Read trials cost Massachusetts taxpayers?

Hos much did the Karen Read trials cost Massachusetts taxpayers?

Hos much have all these insane kangaroo-court trials cost the taxpayers of Massachusetts?

Hos much are we out for Norfolk County DA Michael “Meatball” Morrissey’s obsession with framing Karen Read for a murder she obviously did not commit?

Not to mention his other obsession with putting Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney behind bars, for the crime of… exercising his First Amendment rights?

Two million dollars? Three million? Five million?

And for what? This wasn’t about justice, it was about just-us – the hackerama protecting itself, and all their pals, first in the cover-up of the Sandra Birchmore murder, and then during the failed frame-up of Karen Read.

We need to file a Public Records request with Meatball’s office, asking for a complete accounting of what all these miscarriages of justice in one town have cost us.

Just for starters, there was the “special” persecutor, Mob mouthpiece Hank Brennan. He’s been listed on the books for $250,000, but surely he’s made way more than that by now.

Remember, Meatball has dozens of prosecutors on his regular state payroll. None of them could handle the job? Or did they not want to take on the task, because they knew how awful the case was?

In addition to Brennan, Meatball’s courtroom team included last year’s bust-out prosecutor, chain-smoking loser Adam Lally ($149,350 a year), and Elizabeth McLaughlin ($142,050).

Great use of our tax dollars, Meatball.

Then you have the “experts” from Aperture – Dr. Blue Man Group and the peckerwood from Alabama who’s been trying to get his bachelor’s degree for 17 years. Those two clowns cost Norfolk County another $400,000.

And remember, the feds had already given Meatball 3000 pages of their investigations of the incompetent police investigations, including a study by the best accident reconstruction experts in the nation, ARCCA.

But ARCCA proved conclusively that John O’Keefe hadn’t been hit by a car, so Meatball threw out their report. He didn’t want it, because he was looking to give Karen Read an old-fashioned Norfolk County necktie party, just like Freddy Weichel or Sacco and Vanzetti got.

In America, as opposed to Norfolk County, the prosecutor would have studied the feds’ reports, and concluded (as did the jury) that whatever or whoever killed John O’Keefe, it wasn’t Karen Read’s Lexus SUV.

Meatball’s experts were so laughably bad that Brennan didn’t even bring them back for rebuttal. At the end, he just threw in the towel.

But what did Meatball care? It wasn’t his money he was squandering, it was ours.

The Commonwealth brought in other top-dollar hired-gun experts. They all had one thing in common. They were idiots. Remember the guy who didn’t know the temperature at which water froze? Wonder how much he was paid.

How about all the junkets Meatball’s shady State Police “detectives” got to take in search of… something. I believe there was at least one nice trip to California to meet with a former friend of Karen’s.

Then there was that reported trip to Vermont to see the McAlberts’ “rehomed” dog, Chloe – and if you believe that one, I’ve got a… oh, never mind.

Morrissey’s State Police investigation left no stone unturned, except the one the real killers were hiding under. If you want to hide something real good, just stick it in one of Meatball Morrissey’s law books.

Let’s move on to the Turtleboy persecution.

To put “the blogger” away, Meatball has hired at least two more of his hack cronies as “special” persecutors, including the retired hack judge with two state pensions worth $203,000 a year. There’s also a p.i. in the mix. One by one, their cases against Turtleboy are getting laughed out of court.

And how about all the cops’ rubber-ducky investigations? How much did they all cost, to no avail and for no reason?

But that’s just the start of what Morrissey needs to be asked about. In the summer of 2023, he videotaped a statement almost six minutes long. He defended the frame up, and it hasn’t aged well, to put it mildly.

Among the incredible whoppers Meatball threw out was that Michael Proctor had “no close personal relationships and no conflict” in his relationship with his fellow lifer loser Canton townies, the McAlberts.

Interesting. Mr. District Attorney, does Proctor soliciting a “gift” for his wife from the McAlberts after he lugs Karen Read constitute a “conflict?” He texted about that “gift.”

Morrissey also said of the Canton cabal pointing the finger at Karen: “They should not be harassed for telling the government what they know.”

Or, in the case of so many of them, telling the government what they didn’t know. Sometimes under oath.

“The Internet,” Meatball lectured, “has no punishment for perjury.”

Nor does Norfolk County, apparently. The only time the “witnesses” seemed to tell the truth was when the feds subpoeaned them up to the courthouse on Northern Avenue, where they were informed them of the pains and penalties of perjury.

After releasing that video statement, Meatball has since claimed he couldn’t expand on his comments because, you know, ongoing investigations. They’ve over now.

One last question for Meatball: One of ex-Gov. Charlie Baker’s old pollsters took a poll of Norfolk County voters last night after the verdict. More than 1100 of your constituents were asked if they thought you deserved to be reelected next year.

Yes, said four percent of the sample. Four percent! That’s lower than Khamenei’s favorability numbers in Tehran, but then, despite all the bombing, so far the Supreme Leader has had a much better week than Morrissey.

One final question, for the Boston Police Department, for which the victim worked honorably for many years.

In February 2022, the superintendent-in-chief of the BPD was a good pal of the McAlberts named Greg Long. Like the Albert cops, Long lived in Canton, because of course he did. Long’s wife is a hack state judge, like Beverly Cannone, because of course she is.

Here is the official statement of the Boston Police Department after Karen Read, an innocent woman, was lugged and then handcuffed to a jailhouse radiator.

“Today the Mass State Police and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office arrested the person responsible for John’s death.”

Really? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Isn’t that the law of the land?

Except in Norfolk County, it appears. And Boston.

So where does Karen Read now go to get her good name back?

Certainly not to the Norfolk County district attorney’s office. Or to the Boston PD.