UpdatedFri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET Replies(23) From 2015 through 2018 the troopers are accused of embezzle thousands of dollars in federally funded overtime. (Jenna Fisher/Patch) Two more former State Troopers were charged in the overtime scheme that cost taxpayers thousands. Former MSP Lieutenant Daniel J. Griffin and former MSP Sergeant William W. Robertson were charged with conspiracy, federal programs embezzlement and wire fraud on Friday. Griffin, 57, of Belmont, was also charged with filing false tax returns and wire fraud related to his own scheme to defraud a private school. Robertson, 58, is from Westborough. Subscribe According to the indictment, from 2015 through 2018, Griffin, Robertson, and other troopers in the Traffic Programs Section at State Police Headquarters in Framingham conspired to embezzle thousands of dollars in federally funded overtime. The troopers showed up late to overtime shifts and regularly left early, according to U.S Attorney Andrew Lelling. Griffin made and approved false entries on police forms and other documentation to conceal and perpetuate the fraud.