BOSTON — Governor Charlie Baker emphatically denied on Monday that his administration played any role in the recent departures of the State Police's top two officials amid the filing of twin federal lawsuits alleging they played a role in scrubbing away explosive details appearing in the arrest report of a Worcester County judge's daughter.
During Boston Public Radio's "Ask the Governor" segment, Baker told WGBH hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan that outgoing State Police Superintendent Colonel Richard McKeon and his second-in-command, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hughes, said the two "made that decision on their own."
