Posted on 02/23/2018 5:07:09 PM PST by outpostinmass2
Two top commanders in the Massachusetts State Police retired Friday night.
Sources tell the I-Team’s Cheryl Fiandaca both Lt. Col. Daniel Risteen and Major Susan Anderson were implicated in the Alli Bibaud scandal, the judge’s daughter whose arrest report was altered on orders of then Colonel Richard McKeon. McKeon and his top assistant retired last year.
Attorney General Maura Healey is investigating the incident. The two troopers who blew the whistle on the cover up have filed a federal lawsuit. In a separate story, that Turtleboy Sports was first to report, sources say State Trooper Leigha Genduso was suspended after allegations surfaced that she may have lied or failed to disclose information involving drugs on her application for employment.
Federal court records obtained by WBZ show Genduso was given immunity and testified in a drug case where she admitted under oath to drug use and selling marijuana. She was never charged with a crime.
Genduso is now suspended without pay and her gun, badge, K-9 and cruiser have been taken away. Sources say she is receiving inpatient mental health treatment.
Genduso was the ex-girlfriend of Lt. Col. Risteen and sources say she was given favorable assignments as a result of her relationship, most recently assigned to the K-9 unit. That investigation is ongoing.
Risteen was Commander of the Division of Field Services, the department’s patrol and tactical operations division. Anderson was Commander of Troop C in Central Mass.
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Summary of what happened, for those who haven’t followed, please?
Alli Bibaud, the daughter of a Massachusetts judge whose altered arrest report led to the retirement of the State Police colonel, has admitted to having bags of heroin in her possession in a separate case.
Bibaud admitted to sufficient facts for possessing heroin in an unrelated case out of Shrewsbury. Police stopped a car that was driving with a cracked brake light on Route 9 in May 2017, five months before another stop would escalate into a scandal that has had reverberations through the state police ranks.
Bibaud was a passenger in the car and was not wearing a seatbelt. Police discovered a hypodermic needle filled with blood, as well as seven baggies of heroin, prosecutors said.
In October, State Police discovered Bibaud’s car on Interstate 190 in Worcester after she slammed into a guardrail. She failed a sobriety test and breathalyzer, and had drug materials in her possession, according to police.
The arrest spiraled into a scandal after some details were ordered removed from Bibaud’s arrest report. Statements about exchanging sex acts for drugs and about being a judge’s daughter were removed from the document under the arresting officer’s objections.
Bibaud is the daughter of Dudley District Court Judge Timothy Bibaud.
Gov. Charlie Baker has maintained that former State Police Colonel Richard McKeon made the decision to scrub the report. McKeon and his second-in-command announced their retirement shortly after the incident gained public attention.
Man, there sure are a lot of people working for government who’ve been suddenly retiring unexpectedly.
It must be all the loot and gold plated benefits they make on the backs of the tax payers that attracts them to government.
I’m glad they can’t buy or bribe Trump. It’s one of the reasons they hate him so much.
Also Major Anderson and Lt Col. Dan Risteen who also were forced out today requested that the State Trooper alter the arrest report.
It was then discovered that Lt Col. Dan Risteen was the boyfriend of recently hired State Trooper 17 years his junior. State Trooper Leigha Gendosu was implicated in a major drug dealing operation ten years ago. She was granted immunity in which during her testimony she admitted to perjury, selling drugs, money laundering and taking drugs herself.
There it is again. Ya see all these married people both working for the same departments in government.
I find this bizarre.
With regards to the Massachusetts state police, the movie “The Departed” wasn’t a movie, it was a documentary.
These people are amateurs compared to the Washington State Patrol.
Yesterday, Howie Carr, of Boston’s WRKO had a field day with this news story. Six-figure salaries all-around.
Wow.
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