A former Boston Police sergeant has been sentenced for his involvement in a long-running extra time fraud scheme at BPD’s proof warehouse.
Ex-Boston Police Sgt. William Baxter was sentenced in U.S. District Courtroom to 3 years of supervised launch, with seven months to be served in house detention.
The 63-year-old Hyde Park man was additionally ordered to pay a high-quality of $20,000 and restitution of $9,223.
He had personally collected about $9,223 for extra time hours he didn’t work between March 2015 and June 2016, in response to the feds.
Baxter years in the past pleaded responsible to at least one depend of conspiracy to commit theft regarding packages receiving federal funds, and one depend of embezzlement from an company receiving federal funds.
He was considered one of 15 cops charged in reference to committing OT fraud on the Boston Police Division’s proof warehouse — 10 of whom had been convicted both by responsible plea or jury verdict. Of the remaining 5 officers charged, 4 had been acquitted final April and one officer died whereas expenses had been pending.
Baxter had submitted false and fraudulent extra time slips for OT hours that he didn’t work for 2 shifts on the proof warehouse, in response to the feds.
The primary, referred to as “purge” extra time, was a 4 to eight p.m. weekday shift supposed to get rid of outdated, unneeded proof. The second shift, referred to as “kiosk” extra time, concerned driving to every police district in Boston one Saturday a month to gather outdated prescribed drugs to be burned.
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For the “purge” shift, Baxter claimed to have labored from 4 to eight p.m., however he routinely left at 6 p.m., and typically earlier. Additionally, Baxter knowingly endorsed the fraudulent OT slips of his subordinates who additionally allegedly left early from this shift.
For the “kiosk” shift, Baxter and allegedly others routinely submitted extra time slips claiming to have labored 8.5 hours — when actually he and allegedly different members of the unit solely labored 3 to 4 hours of these shifts.
