Massachusetts state troopers suspended after pay scandal probe

During an internal affairs investigation into the Massachusetts State Police over discrepancies between the pay for overtime shifts and the actual shifts worked, nine troopers have been suspended without pay and another nine have retired.

Twenty-one total troopers, including troopers, sergeants and lieutenants, have been accused of receiving pay for overtime shifts while not actually working those shifts, the state department announced.

Massachusetts State Police Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin announced last week that because of an audit of overtime patrols worked by certain members of Troop E — which has barracks along the Massachusetts Turnpike— 19 of those troopers would face internal duty status hearings.

Two troopers were excluded from those hearings, the state police explained, because one is currently suspended without pay for an unrelated matter under investigation and the other retired prior to the opening of the internal affairs investigation.

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