Posted on 02/26/2018 5:30:33 AM PST by outpostinmass2
Massachusetts State Police Trooper Leigha A. Genduso was suspended without pay last week in the wake of an internal affairs investigation that will review, among other things, the process through which the Worcester native was hired, according to a state police spokesman.
Trooper Genduso, 36, was suspended without pay Friday after it was revealed that she participated in a large-scale marijuana business in the early 2000s run by her then live-in boyfriend. She had been placed on paid administrative leave on Monday last week.
State police spokesman David Procopio said Friday that a hearing was scheduled to determine what Trooper Genduso’s duty status would be pending completion of the internal affairs investigation.
Trooper Genduso’s criminal past was publicly available in a 2007 federal case in which she testified against her then-boyfriend, Sean P. Bucci of North Reading. That testimony enabled her to avoid prosecution for her participation in the enterprise, which she said in court documents included helping package, transport and sell marijuana, as well as launder some of the proceeds.
A 1999 Shrewsbury High School graduate, Trooper Genduso graduated from the academy in 2014 and was assigned to the state police K-9 section, where she has remained.
Mr. Bucci was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, possession with intent to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, conspiracy to commit money laundering, two substantive counts of money laundering, seven substantive counts of structuring currency transactions and four counts of tax evasion.
The evidence at trial showed Mr. Bucci used drug money to buy real estate, vehicles, a boat, and for extensive travel to, and gambling in, Aruba.
In sworn testimony in 2007, Ms. Genduso said she started dating Mr. Bucci in 2000. He was a DJ at a bar in Salem and she was a cocktail waitress at the time.
She testified that three months into the relationship, Mr. Bucci told her he sold marijuana for a living. She also said she began smoking marijuana “basically every day” when she was involved with him.
In 2000 and 2001, Ms. Genduso said, she got more involved in Mr. Bucci’s marijuana business. She said she would be present for deliveries that were usually around 200 pounds of marijuana.
“A lot of times I helped him break up the bales to be able to put them into pounds,” she testified.
In addition, she said she would take money from Mr. Bucci’s customers when he wasn’t in the house or was sleeping, and in 2002 and 2003, she started delivering and selling it herself to a customer in Worcester.
“I would put it in boxes and then wrap them up as presents,” Ms. Genduso said, “because of the smell, and because it’s miles to drive with that in my car.”
Furthermore, Ms. Genduso said, she made “well over 20” deposits of usually $9,000 for Mr. Bucci.
After their guilty verdict, the jury returned a general forfeiture judgment of $2.7 million against Mr. Bucci, and judgments of forfeiture of his North Reading house, a 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche SUV, a boat and $35,000 in a bank account.
Mr. Bucci was also sentenced to 151 months in prison.
A year later, Ms. Genduso was a state police dispatcher. She was honored with a State 911 award in 2009 for keeping a 6-year-old girl calm on the phone while her mother was experiencing a medical emergency.
It's good to be ambitious.
Transfer her to Broward County
She was a “bartender” at Centerfolds before she joined the State Police.
Do they even bother to try to determine if an applicant for cop has any of the moral and ethical requirements needed to be a cop? or do the Mass idiots even think about that, and just do all they can to fill the quotas?
I’m sure in the private sector she would be on paid administrative leave.
When are public “servants” and their incompetent idiot bosses going to be fired by the hundreds of thousands like they should be? Jailed too.
Because, for sake of political correctness, the standards for employment in Law Enforcement have been dropped into the toilet?
Still, she’ll probably be a better cop than Peterson, Israel, or most of the Broward County sheriff’s department.
I’m going to guess that affirmative action mandates had something to do with their hiring her despite her record.
Photographic evidence required to determine guilt? (Even though the case that led to her suspension was settled long ago).
She was hired by former State Police commander Marian McGovern, who was instated by Gov. Deval Patrick.
She also has a tax-free pension:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120726/news/120729636
Per the article, she got off without charges in exchange for testifying. Thus she had NO ACTUAL CRIMINAL RECORD to serve as the basis for legitimately rejecting her.
Sounds like she has sone extra special skills that she can apply to her duties. I see nothing wrong with this.
Per the article, she got off without charges in exchange for testifying. Thus she had NO ACTUAL CRIMINAL RECORD to serve as the basis for legitimately rejecting her
For the record she admitted to dealing drugs for 2 years, money laundering and perjury. She also admitted to taking illegal drugs daily. As a state trooper would she be a reliable witness in court based on her previous testimony? F.Y.I, I know people in law enforcement and they look at everything during the background check.
“Transfer her to Broward County”
Would probably improve that department. Better to have criminals with courage than just plain yellow criminals.
Well this definitely proves that back ground checks are the answer to stopping gun violence.
CASE CLOSED.
She used the Weinstein Process, of course..................
“Do they even bother to try to determine if an applicant for cop has any of the moral and ethical requirements needed to be a cop?”
But yet democrats want everyone to undergo a down to a gnats ass background check to buy a gun.
A pre-employment polygraph can weed out former druggies.
I guess the old tactic of screwing your way onto and up the ladder is too obvious for those wondering how/why.
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