Four more Massachusetts State Police troopers were temporarily relieved of duty Monday and placed under internal investigation as part of a growing overtime fraud scandal.
Investigators conducting an internal audit found discrepancies between the troopers’ overtime pay and their actual hours worked, the department said in a news release.
Forty-six current and former troopers are now linked to the payroll fraud investigation and have had details of their alleged misconduct forwarded to state and federal prosecutors, the department said.
All belonged to former Troop E, a division that patrolled the Massachusetts Turnpike until it was disbanded this spring. Roughly one-third of that unit’s members have been accused of collecting overtime pay for hours…
