Corrupt Massachusetts cop nets $584,000 salary after netting $350k in overtime pay in a year
A Massachusetts State Police captain who was once suspended without pay after being arrested earned half a million dollars last year, including overtime.
State Police Detective Thomas McCarthy earned $349,815 in overtime in 2024, boosting his total salary to $584,072, according to the state comptroller records.
McCarthy had already been suspended without pay for a year in 2011 after being arrested for failing to stop for local police while off duty, the agency confirmed to police. Boston Herald.
The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) also confirmed that McCarthy “forfeited” a month’s salary in 2005 when he was “the subject of disciplinary action.”
State police noted that McCarthy was assigned to Boston Logan International Airport, where construction contributed to the majority of his overtime.
Four other state troopers are on the list of the top 10 overtime workers in Massachusetts in 2024.
MSP Lt. James Crump earned $286,623 in overtime, Sgt. Michal Fiore earned $260,466, Det. Lt. John Strazzullo collected $240,119 and Trooper Matthew Thielker collected $223,731.
The Massachusetts State Police has been the subject of several recent controversies, including a previous overtime scandal.
State Police Detective Thomas McCarthy (pictured) earned $349,815 in overtime in 2024, boosting his total salary to $584,072
In September, 25-year-old police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia died after suffering a “medical crisis” during a defensive tactics exercise.
Delgado-Garcia was injured so badly that he suffered severe brain trauma, a broken neck and the loss of several teeth.
Doctors said his injuries were so serious he was believed to have been involved in a 100mph car crash.
The district attorney assigned to review the case ordered another agency to investigate his death because Delgado-Garcia had worked in the district attorney’s office for 18 months as a victim witness advocate and was well known to the staff .
The lead MSP investigator in the Karen Read trial has been suspended without pay over nasty messages he sent about Reed.
Trooper Michael Proctor was infamously forced to read text messages he sent about Read from the witness stand during her trial, calling her a “whack job,” a “c**t” and a “babe,” among other things.
In other messages, he joked about searching her phone for nude photos during the investigation.
The messages were used by Read’s defense as they claimed she was the victim of a vast conspiracy involving Boston police and Massachusetts State Police.
In September, 25-year-old police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia (pictured) died after suffering a ‘medical crisis’ during a defensive tactics exercise
Michael Proctor of the Massachusetts State Police (pictured) was suspended without pay for nasty messages he sent about Karen.
In 2018, nearly fifty military personnel were involved in a massive state police overtime scheme.
Former MSP Lieutenant Daniel J. Griffin and former MSP Sergeant William W. Robertson were convicted in December 2023 of conspiracy, federal program fraud and wire fraud in connection with the scandal dating back to 2015.
From 2015 through 2018, Griffin, Robertson and other troopers from the Traffic Programs Division at State Police Headquarters in Framingham conspired to steal thousands of dollars in federally funded overtime pay by regularly arriving late to and leaving early on overtime shifts which were funded by grants intended to improve road safety, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.