Karen Learn prosecutor Hank Brennan took in $566K for his work [See the invoices]

Hank Brennan earned $566,000 for his work as particular prosecutor within the second Karen Learn homicide trial, data present.

Brennan, a longtime protection legal professional well-known for representing Southie mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in his federal trial, was employed by Norfolk District Legal professional Michael Morrissey to guide the prosecution in Learn’s second trial on fees together with second-degree homicide within the Jan. 29, 2022, dying of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, her boyfriend on the time.

That trial ended final month with Learn’s acquittal on her indicted fees of second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working a motorcar beneath the affect of liquor and leaving the scene of an accident leading to dying. Jurors did convict her of a lesser cost: drunken driving, additionally referred to as working beneath the affect, or OUI.

“It turned out to be the most expensive OUI trial in history,” Learn protection legal professional David Yannetti advised the Herald in an interview shortly after the trial ended.

Via his regulation agency, Brennan & Associates, Brennan submitted seven invoices masking his work from Sept. 17, 2024, via the trial’s finish on June 18, 2025. The invoices complete $566,000 for two,264 billable hours.

Brennan was formally appointed as a particular assistant district legal professional for the Learn case on Sept. 23, 2024, in response to a contract inked that day by Brennan and Norfolk First Assistant DA Margaret Krippendorf.

That settlement set his hourly charge at $250 and had capped compensation at $75,000 — a determine that Brennan blew previous by greater than $45,000 by his second bill.

The invoices have been launched as a part of the Norfolk DA’s preliminary response to a public file request by the Herald. Assistant District Legal professional Brandon Hunt, who’s in command of such requests, says that extra information shall be delivered on a rolling foundation.