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"Maura Healey, the incoming attorney general, said the alarming uptick in heroin overdoses and prescription drug addiction prompted her to pull together a group that includes State Police, criminal prosecutors, civil enforcement attorneys, and health care and drug abuse prevention experts to develop a coordinated approach."
Maybe she should check her own offices first:
"Former Middlesex prosecutor indicted on corruption charges" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff January 08, 2015
A former Middlesex prosecutor who was addicted to illegal prescription drugs sold confidential law enforcement information to his drug supplier and collected a $1,500 payment from a woman trying to get her son’s right to drive restored, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office alleged Thursday.
Stephen M. Gilpatric is to be arraigned Friday morning on three charges in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn — the same courthouse where he handled major drug investigations and public corruption cases during his seven-year career in law enforcement, Coakley’s office said in a statement.
Gilpatric was indicted by a statewide grand jury on charges of receiving an unlawful gratuity, unlawfully communicating criminal record information, and receiving unlawful compensation.
Gilpatric, according to Coakley’s office, spent hundreds of dollars weekly in recent years to feed his addiction to oxycodone, a powerful painkiller that is also highly addictive. Gilpatric, 35, worked in the Middlesex district attorney's office from 2007 until the investigation into his actions began in October 2014, Coakley’s office said.
In October 2011, Gilpatric collected law enforcement information about one man and then provided that to his drug supplier, in return for a supply of oxycodone pills, Coakley alleged.
The “sensitive information” included the man’s Criminal Offender Record Information (also known as CORI or Board of Probation) record, a police report, a photograph, and “other personal identifying information,” Coakley alleged.
Gilpatric also allegedly gave an organizational chart of a drug operation and another confidential criminal record of an unidentified person to his drug supplier — and the drug dealer’s brother — “hoping to receive pills in exchange,’’ Coakley’s office alleged.
The third allegation Gilpatric faces is that he accepted a $1,500 payment in August 2011 from a mother who wanted to get her son’s commercial driving license restored after it was revoked as a consequence of a guilty plea in a criminal case.
Reached by telephone, Gilpatric declined comment and referred a reporter to his attorneys, David Meier and Melinda Thompson. In a telephone interview, Thompson noted that the criminal allegations date to 2011, and do not involve any of the major cases Gilpatric has handled since.
She also said the addiction that prosecutors say was linked to the criminal charges was overcome in 2011.
“He’s just such a good, good human being. Everyone always says something like that when something like this happens, but in this case, it’s really true,’’ said Thompson, who worked in the Middlesex district attorney’s office at the same time as Gilpatric. “He loved his job and everyone loved him as well. It’s just a real tragedy.’’
Yup, some people just oh, the tragedy.... and other people and their addictions, just bad, bad!
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I need to $top popping the eliti$t pre$$ pill that is the Bo$ton Globe.
"Ex-Middlesex prosecutor accused of leaks to dealer" by Evan Allen, Globe Staff January 09, 2015
WOBURN — Stephen M. Gilpatric, a former Middlesex County prosecutor who worked as a member of the public protection, antiterrorism, corruption, and technology unit, removed his glasses and wiped his eyes before his arraignment....
Pffffffft!
According to a document filed by prosecutors from the attorney general’s office, as Gilpatric rose through the ranks of the Middlesex district attorney’s office, he developed an addiction to oxycodone that eventually cost him hundreds of dollars a week and led to “severe financial strain.”
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After the brief hearing, Gilpatric’s lawyer, Melinda Thompson, said her client was upset and worried.
“It’s a tragedy,” she said. “He was a great prosecutor.”
She declined to comment on whether he denied the charges against him. She said there was no indication or allegation that any of the cases he was affiliated with or prosecuted had ever been affected by his drug addiction. Prosecutors have said the same thing.
How could it not have been? He was stoned! This is another Dookhan!
Thompson said Gilpatric has since beaten his addiction. She said she had worked with him when she was a prosecutor, and called him a “fantastic prosecutor” who was “extremely well-liked.” She said he did not have a reputation as a drug user.
She said she did not know how the investigation into her client began....
Yeah, the poor drug addict.
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