Quigley, Proctor rotting State Police from within

Michael Proctor’s not the only scandal the Massachusetts State Police are jammed up in.

Let’s talk about suspended Sgt. Scott Quigley’s visit with multiple other troopers during working hours at Teresa’s in Woburn on Dec. 12, 2023.

That local version of a “Toga! Toga! Toga!” police party ended with Quigley in his police cruiser swerving across a double yellow line, striking a disabled van and fatally injuring a 37-year-old Special Olympian.

At the hospital Quigley recorded a blood alcohol level of .114 – far above the legal limit of .08.

Nobody knew anything about this cop killing for 25 months because of a massive cover up by both the State Police and the Middlesex County district attorney’s office which continues to this day.

The septuagenarian DA Marian Ryan refuses to release an audio interview she gave to a retired hack judge about what she knew and when she knew it. She desperately tries to broom this scandal beyond the Democrat primary Sept. 1, in which she seeks another term at age 71 against her straight-arrow opponent David Solet.

Since corrupt hack Marian Ryan wouldn’t tell you if your coat was on fire, I sent a detailed list of questions about the MSP toga party to the State Police. Yesterday, they sent me their official dummy-up response.

“The Department is not able to comment on pending litigation or allegations presented in filings or depositions.”

In other words, the investigation continues – wink wink nudge nudge.

The partying state cop I’m most interested in right now is retired Lt. Col. Brian Connors, a hack’s hack.

The lawyer for the estate of the victim is Michael Mahoney. It took him 13 months to pry Quigley’s name out of the State Police and Marian Ryan, and another 7 to get the Ryan crony’s legally-drunk BAC.

Now Mahoney continues getting the swerve as he tries to learn learning which other appalling cops were boozing that deadly-drunk afternoon.

He sent a letter to MSP Col. Geoffrey Noble on March 19:

“Evidence suggests that Lt. Col. Brian Connor was present at Teresa’s and may have either consumed alcohol or witnessed Trooper Quigley doing so. Nevertheless, Lt. Col. Connor signed a crash review form dated July 19, 2024, attributing the crash in part to a possible medical event.”

Medical event? A bad ice cube, perhaps?

Connors is scheduled to be deposed soon by Mahoney. Repeated calls to Connors’ attorney were not returned.

As lieutenant colonel, Connors was privy to all the endless criminal scandals in the MSP. Let’s go straight to the latest court filings from Karen Read about the corrupt trooper who tried to frame her, Michael Proctor:

“On Feb. 4, 2024, Proctor had a meeting and told the highest level of leadership at the MSP about his testimony to the Department of Justice, including his text messages….”

Among those attending the Feb. 4 cover up session, according to the complaint: “Lt. (Col.) Brian Connors.”

That year, as Connors was hanging out with his good pal Proctor and writing crash-review forms for his other dear friend with the .114 BAC, he made $250,342.38.

Connors retired in January 2025, with the traditional “leave/buy back” kiss in the mail of $120,995.05.

Connors’ pension is now $171,351 a year — $14,279 a month.

But as so often happens with these troopers who know where the bodies are buried, Connors has been handed a high-paying new job in the hackerama.

Connors is now a “civilian investigator” for the Mass. Gaming Commission, making $97.53 an hour on an “as-needed basis.” So far this year he’s pocketed $7,095 on top of the pension.

Mahoney continues deposing all these toga-toga-toga troopers under oath, trying to find out how many others were at Teresa’s on the night Quigley got the bad ice cube.

The lawyer told me earlier this week that another cop in the office named Cooke told him under oath that he had “heard” that another attendee was one Det. Lt. Erik Gagnon.

Gagnon, like Quigley, was assigned to the corrupt Middlesex DA’s office. Guess what – he too has since retired, last January.

Gagnon’s pension is $127,338 a year – that’s a $10,612-a-month kiss in the mail.

If that name Gagnon sounds familiar, it’s because there is – or was – another Gagnon on the MSP duty roll.

Trooper Michael Gagnon is now suspended, after being arrested twice since last November – first for punching a 7-year-old boy in the face, and then in April for wiretapping. Channel 25 reported last week that that trooper Gagnon is currently jailed in Plymouth County.

Any relation to Gagnon from Teresa’s, I asked the State Police.

“The Department is unaware of any familial relationship between Trooper Michael Gagnon and retired Detective Lieutenant Gagnon.”

It just seems like there should be a familial relationship, just like with those two troopers named Kent who both got jammed up last year in criminal cases involving very different sorts of balls.

Meanwhile, the cover up continues. Marian Ryan will do anything to kick this horrific drunk-driving death and subsequent cover up down the road until after the primary.

You know who might be able to help the good guys break through the MSP’s Big Blue Wall of Silence? Lt. Jennifer Penton. She’s the state cop who “investigated” Quigley’s fatal crash, with no alcohol testing, no crash reconstruction, no nothing.

After brooming her Quigley’s MV homicide, she was promoted to lieutenant. Quigley, who actually caused the head on crash, was promoted to sergeant.

It’s the State Police way.

Now, though, Lt. Penton has herself been indicted in yet another scandal – for perjury and involuntary manslaughter.

Lt. Penton, did you ever think about… flipping? One thing about the State Police – they always have a fall guy lined up. Ask Michael Proctor what kind of pension you get when you draw the short straw to become the latest MSP’s patsy.

Lt. Penton, you don’t want to be the next Michael Proctor. You want to grab yourself one of those $171,000-a-year Lt. Col. Connors pensions before it’s too late.

Meanwhile, the cover up, er, the investigation continues.