Feds Charge MBTA Cop Over False Report Over Beating Of Homeless Man - Worcester, MA - David Finnerty, a Rutland resident, helped cover for an MBTA officer who assaulted a homeless man at the T stop in 2018, prosecutors say.
A former MBTA Transit Police sergeant was arrested Thursday on federal charges alleging he falsified an incident report in 2018 regarding an officer’s assault of a man at the Ashmont T stop, according to Acting US Attorney Joshua S. Levy’s office.
The FBI on Friday arrested former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty, 47, of Rutland, for his alleged role in helping one of his underlings cover up the way that officer used a baton to beat a homeless man at the Ashmont T station - and then arrest the man for on a bogus charge for attacking him. Finnerty faces a potential sentence of up to 20 years in prison if convicted
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