Two More Abrupt Resignations from Massachusetts State Police Brass Connected To ‘TrooperGate’ Scandal
UPDATED 1 A.M. 2/24/18
Two additional high-ranking State Police officials with connections to the judge's daughter scandal have abruptly retired, the head of the Massachusetts State Police announced Friday night.
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Risteen, commander of the Division of Field Services, and Major Susan Anderson, commander of Troop C in Holden, have retired. Both have been implicated in an order to a state trooper in October to scrub embarrassing details from a police report concerning the arrest of a judge's daughter.
The judge's daughter, Alli Bibaud, told State Trooper Ryan Sceviour when he arrived at an accident scene and found drugs in the car that she had performed sex acts to obtain heroin and offered to perform sex acts on him in exchange for leniency, according to Sceviour. But when he put those details in a police report he was ordered to remove them and reprimanded, according to a federal lawsuit Sceviour filed against several high-ranking State Police officials.
Anderson is a defendant in the case. Risteen has hired a lawyer to represent him in it, even though he has not at this point been designated a defendant by name.
