In this March 12, 2019 file photo, Andrew Lelling, Massachusetts U.S. attorney, speaks during a news conference in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP)
Two former Massachusetts State Police troopers face fraud and theft charges in an alleged overtime scheme separate from the 2018 scandal that roiled the department.
Retired troopers Lt. Daniel Griffin and Sgt. William Robertson are accused of fraudulently collecting pay for overtime shifts they didn t work, including times they were supposed to be manning sobriety checkpoints. The shifts were paid with federal grant money for the State Police Traffic Programs Section. Griffin and Robertson were arrested Friday morning.
From 2015 through 2018, Griffin, Robertson, and other troopers “conspired to embezzle thousands of dollars in federally funded overtime by regularly arriving late to, and leaving early from, overtime shifts funded by grants intended to improve traffic safety, according to a statement from Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew