There’s one more listening to in Framingham tomorrow for disgraced, suspended-without-pay cone head Mass. State trooper Michael Proctor – his third.
Will it lastly be three strikes and also you’re not? Unlikely. Proctor is a crooked cop, and that makes him Good Individuals, so far as the State Police are involved.
To Shield and Steal – that’s their motto. So what’s to not love about Michael Proctor?
Making slightly below $150,000 a yr, he drove drunk in an MSP cruiser, despatched “inappropriate” (learn: vile) texts a few lady he was investigating whereas concurrently soliciting “presents” from shady native yokels concerned in the identical homicide investigation, and many others.
Bent cops like Proctor are celebrated by the MSP. That they had a complete outfit known as Troop E – E for embezzlement.
And don’t even get me began on Trooper Terence Kent, indicted yesterday, to not be confused with Trooper Zachariah “Golf Ball” Kent, not too long ago ordered by a choose to remain out of Goal…..”
Michael Proctor won’t be fired tomorrow. Depend on it. He’s a conehead’s conehead.
Then again, contemplate the case of ex-trooper Arthur Cournoyer. In contrast to Proctor, who continues to be pampered and coddled by the brass for his atrocious misbehavior, Cournoyer was run out of the State Police.
Cournoyer’s crime? He was injured on responsibility whereas ending a hostage scenario involving a girl and her 5-year-old baby in Brookfield in 1998. He was damage badly, wanted 5 operations and years of rehabilitation to return to well being.
In different phrases, Cournoyer is a hero. So by God he might by no means be allowed to return on the job. When he tried to return to responsibility, the thugs in jodhpurs ran him off on his first day again on the Academy in New Braintree.
The excellent news is, a Middlesex County jury final week simply awarded Cournoyer $1.9 million in damages, seven years after he filed his wrongful-discrimination lawsuit. He was discriminated towards, the jury dominated, primarily based on his bodily handicaps.
The jury didn’t rule in favor of his age complaints (he was 58). However primarily based on his submitting, his age seemed to be what the fake-tough-guy drill instructors on the academy had their greatest drawback with.
One DI particularly – “John Doe,” as he’s known as within the lawsuit – appeared to significantly loath Cournoyer. When Cournoyer’s legal professionals tried to seek out out his actual identify, they needed to get a court docket order to get pictures from the MSP.
And when the state cops lastly turned over the pictures, they regarded like photos from a center faculty yearbook. Thus, Cournoyer couldn’t ID the offending trooper. It’s the identical warped skilled courtesy that Michael Proctor depends upon to maintain his phony-baloney job, even when it’s (briefly) with out pay.
Listed below are some excerpts of how Trooper “John Doe” handled the hero cop:
“… Regarded up at him with disgust and irritation and sarcastically requested him how previous he was… turned to his proper in direction of one other trooper and stated: ‘What the (bleep)?’….”
On the primary day of coaching on the academy, all of the recruits needed to present the DI’s their medicines.
“(Cournoyer)… handed Trooper John Doe his plastic bag of medicines… (Doe) checked out Cournoyer with disgust and irritation, then threw Cournoyer’s bag of medicines up within the air and let it fall onto the desk… and stated, ‘What within the hell are they letting previous individuals in right here with (bleep) like this for?’”
Maybe you’re pondering {that a} 58-year-old shouldn’t have been allowed to return again. However that’s the regulation. And he handed the MSP’s preliminary bodily exams.
And contemplate Cournoyer’s financial losses by taking up that thug in Brookfield again in 1998.
Cournoyer’s pension is now $48,742 a yr. The lieutenant colonel that he handled when he tried to return again was in his recruit class, and now could be himself retired with a $110,415 annual pension.
On that first day again, when Cournoyer complained about his remedy, he talked to a number of superior officers, together with that lieutenant colonel. He additionally spoke to the commandant captain, now retired at $141,162 a yr, and a detective lieutenant, now retired with a $148,233 pension.
To repeat, as a result of Cournoyer took a threat to rescue any person, his pension is $48,742. After all he needed to return again.
As he was making his pitch to the brass, he might hear a voice that appeared like John Doe’s exterior the room yelling:
“What the (bleep)? He’s 58 years previous. What’s he going to do, go house and cry to his mom?”
Cournoyer left the Academy that day however refused to resign from the MSP. So the MSP put him on a “Resignation Checklist” although he hadn’t carried out so.
And now, 10 years later, Cournoyer collects virtually two million bucks. However he’ll by no means make up these misplaced pension years, getting $100,000 lower than all people who didn’t rush into that home in Brookfield.
Does the identify Leigha Genduso ring a bell? A yr earlier, in 2014, she breezed via the academy. No issues in any respect.
She was a former hot-pants cocktail waitress at locations with names like Scuttlebutts and Funky Murphy’s. She was additionally the live-in ex-moll of a drug-dealing gangster.
Earlier than being employed by the State Police, Genduso admitted to a federal grand jury that she herself had offered giant quantities of weed, abused medication, laundered cash for a gangster boyfriend and “perjurized” herself in entrance of one other federal grand jury.
Leigha Genduso, a profession felony, had no issues on the Academy. After her hoodlum boyfriend received lugged, she attached with a lieutenant colonel and in some way, all people on the Academy regarded the opposite manner.
After all, it might have been worse on the Academy for Arthur Cournoyer. He might have been Enrique Delgado-Garcia, the recruit who died in New Braintree final summer season in a “boxing train.”
The investigation continues. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Hey, it took Cournoyer a decade to get even somewhat justice. How lengthy do you suppose the Delgado-Garcia “investigation” will drag on?
Will that probe be over earlier than or after Michael Proctor’s disciplinary hearings conclude?
Hey state police, you screwed up on Cournoyer, Genduso, Delgado-Garcia and dozens of different disciplinary circumstances. Are you able to at the least do the best factor tomorrow and fireplace Conehead Proctor as soon as and for all?
Trooper John Doe couldn’t be reached for remark.
