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# Maura Healey Predicts Firings, Criminal Probes After MassDOT Overtime Report
- URL: https://www.newbostonpost.com/healey-massdot-overtime-fraud-report/
- Published: 2026-05-26T18:22:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T18:22:44.000Z
- Description: Governor Maura Healey said MassDOT workers could lose their jobs and face criminal investigations after a Boston 25 News report alleged questionable overtime billing.
- Author: State House News Service
- Tags: News, Politics, State Government

Michael P. Norton  
State House News Service

She's waiting for the results of an investigation, but Gov. Maura Healey is already predicting that "people will lose their jobs" after a Boston 25 News report on suspected overtime fraud at the transportation department. 

Based on a 231-day undercover probe, [25 Investigates reported last week](https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/25-investigates-massachusetts-state-workers-clocking-out-cashing/74AVHWPP3JGXZGRQZJEO337IYM/?ref=newbostonpost.com) that it uncovered a "systemic pattern of questionable overtime billing among the top-earning maintenance workers at a MassDOT District Six facility in Charlestown." 

"Anytime somebody is ripping off the public, ripping off taxpayers, I'm outraged," Healey told reporters Thursday afternoon at the State House. "And you know, I hope whatever the investigation yields, know that they're going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

A reporter asked Healey whether higher-ups were complicit or "just asleep at the switch." Healey said that she doesn't "know enough yet" but that Undersecretary Jonathan Gulliver had been directed to "get to the bottom of all of this."

"As a former attorney general, I prosecuted cases of fraud, including against public employees, and I'll make sure that happens now. If people are screwing around, they're not at work, they're not where they're supposed to be, it's outrageous," Healey said.

She added: "Boy, when I saw that, I went through the roof. And so, yeah, I'm sure people will lose their jobs, and I'm sure that people will face some criminal investigations and prosecutions."

Reporter Ted Daniel started surveillance of workers at the Charlestown facility in September 2025, tracked the vehicles of employees and cross-checked timesheets and pay reports that are posted publicly. In his report, Daniel said the media outlet was "denied" an opportunity to speak with Transportation Secretary Phil Eng.

"According to state data, at least half of the top-earning highway maintenance workers in Massachusetts are concentrated at the Charlestown yard. Payroll records show these workers routinely billing back-to-back shifts, clocking grueling overnight hours immediately followed by regular eight-hour day shifts," Boston 25 News reported, citing one worker with an $84,000 base salary who was paid $240,000 a year with overtime. 

The state has been pouring public money into education and transportation, areas targeted for investments under the 2022 constitutional amendment imposing a higher tax on household incomes above $1 million.