In the unending torrent of police corruption in Massachusetts, here’s a bit of good news.
The original poster boy for Massachusetts State Police corruption, as described by the feds, has finally been thrown into prison, where he will remain until July 2028.
No, I’m not talking about Michael Proctor, the current poster boy for corruption in the State Police, with his most recent scandal being what the DA’s office admits is a cell phone full of “intimate body parts of people not participating in the text chain.”
Wait, whatever happened to Proctor’s earlier statement: “No nudes so far.” I guess that statement about his leering searches of Karen Read’s cell phone is no longer operative.
But now that we find out he does a phone full of XXX-rated photos, what is going to happen to all the as-yet-unfired troopers on this text chain who were getting nude photos from overweight, low-IQ Proctor.
But before there was a Michael Proctor, the feds dubbed another sleazy Statie as the “poster boy” of MSP corruption.
Imagine the frenzied competition in the crooked-cop sweepstakes to win such a coveted honor!
C’mon down, Daniel J. Griffin, age 62, Bureau of Prisons (BOP) number 21758-509.
How corrupt is Griffin? Well, the feds’ sentencing memo on his criminal career ran 132 pages. This was their opening sentence, in boldface:
“Daniel Joseph Griffin is a criminal.”
His m.o., the feds elaborated, “was taking advantage of his badge to lie, cheat and steal.”
The G-men first identified him as a crime boss back in 2015 – a decade ago! He was one of the hacks running the embezzlement grift out on the Turnpike. As the G-men closed in, he ordered his minions to destroy the evidence.
Naturally, a typically thorough State Police investigation in 2019 “completely exonerated” him, in the feds’ words. Of course it did. It’s just staties being staties. Professional courtesy.
“Despite multiple Troopers being arrested, pleading guilty and being sentenced for overtime fraud from 2018 to 2019, the State Police absolved Griffin, its most prolific offender to date, in a matter of four months.”
It’s almost enough to make you think Griffin maybe had something on somebody else. But nah, that’s not how the State Police operate, wink wink nudge nudge.
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