State will pay legal bills for Worcester County prosecutor tied to ethics probe
The state has OK'd a payment for $120,000 in legal bills for a prosecutor cleared in a 2022 probe but will not pay two state troopers also cleared.
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The state has OK'd a payment for $120,000 in legal bills for a prosecutor cleared in a 2022 probe but will not pay two state troopers also cleared.
The days of old style “bugs” and body wires may be gone, but a civil liberties nightmare lives on.
The ruling comes six months after the commission heard a nine-day civil trial in Boston over allegations that Early, his top prosecutor, the former head of the state police and another ex-top state police official broke civil ethics laws in their handling of the report.
After three weeks of hearings ending Friday, the Ethics Commission will now consider $20,000 fines for each of the officials. See Boston.com.
The State Ethics Commission hearings into the so-called “Troopergate” scandal of 2017 continue Wednesday of this week. Here are five things to know about the proceedings ahead of the second week: