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Use drug forfeit dough on SUVs, couches, flat-screens
Dave Wedge By Dave Wedge
Monday, February 21, 2011
Top-ranking state police brass at Logan International Airport shelled out $300,000 for a shiny, new fleet of take-home SUVs for themselves and bought couches, furniture and flat-screen TVs — all out of their own tightly controlled fund of seized drug money, the Herald has learned.
“It’s yet another example of things that seem to always end up happening at Massport, that are even beyond some of the normal excesses we see in state government,” said state Rep. Bradley H. Jones, a North Reading Republican. “It feeds into the perception of Massport as a cash cow from top to bottom.”
Commanders at Troop F at Logan — including the major, three lieutenants, a sergeant and a detective — are riding in style in $40,000-plus 2011 Ford Explorers purchased just weeks ago out of the unit’s asset forfeiture account — a discreet fund controlled by a detective lieutenant.