Interesting timing: On 6/16, Michael Morrissey’s campaign paid $10,000 to Gretchen Voss’s “burger buddy,” David Traub of Traub Communications, for “media consulting.” A month later, Voss published an anti-Read, anti-TB, anti-Deitch hit piece. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
A Canton resident who was at CF McCarthy's with John O'Keefe and Karen Read has now decided to tell his story.
James Sullivan says his police interview was leaked shortly after he gave it in May 2022. He alleges Christopher Albert confronted him in June 2022 with details from his witness statement before it was public.
Sullivan also claims Sgt. Sean Goode said that Canton Police were "great at covering up murders." Days later, he says he received an anonymous text containing a photo of him and Karen from CF McCarthy's, along with false personal allegations.
If Sullivan's allegations are true, they raise serious questions about how witness information was handled and whether a cooperating witness was intimidated or retaliated against instead of protected.
One question deserves an answer. How was Sullivan's interview leaked?
According to the police report, only James Sullivan, Trooper Michael Proctor, and Trooper Christopher Moore were present during the interview. Sullivan would not have had a copy of the police report. If Christopher Albert knew details from that interview before they became public, how did he learn them?
Massachusetts' witness intimidation statute, M.G.L. c. 268, § 13B, prohibits intimidating, harassing, misleading, or retaliating against someone because they provided information in a criminal investigation.
If Sullivan's account is accurate, it appears far more consistent with the type of conduct this statute was intended to address than the witness intimidation allegations brought against Karen Read and Aidan Kearney.
Just as concerning are the implications if a law enforcement officer retaliated against or attempted to intimidate a private citizen simply because that citizen did not believe the Commonwealth's theory of the case. Citizens are free to question the government's narrative, discuss the evidence, and form their own opinions without fear of harassment or retaliation. If those allegations are true, they strike at the heart of the public's trust in law enforcement.
It is also worth noting that Trooper Proctor lived in Canton, and Lt. Brian Tully was seen in town on multiple occasions socializing with certain witnesses during the investigation. Those facts do not establish who leaked Sullivan's interview, but they do raise legitimate questions about how confidential witness information may have been handled.
@GlammaSooz@TinyFullHaus@DixieNormu95224 I’ve thought that as well. The physical manipulation is overwhelming in this case. If they manipulated one thing, no need to stop. Make sure she doesn’t skate. It’s so obvious.
@ronmilione Interesting thought that he could have had conversations with a convicted serial killer. In court his attorney questioned about the state getting his Desales email account. I wonder if they found something.
How did I forget!? Harry and Meghan fed information to Omid Scobie about their families, then lied about it in court! Now Harry is crying about being the victim in every interview! Isn’t Spare a hack on the Royal Families privacy? Isn’t his most salacious claims a nasty headline thrown at this family!? Why yes, yes it is.
<Nothing marked her out more than her imaginative decision not to allow her children to be weighed down with royal titles, insisting it would give them more freedom. ‘My children are not royal,’ she would say, ‘it’s simply that the Queen is their grandmother.’
How striking to contrast Anne’s position with that of her nephew Prince Harry, and Meghan, who clamoured for titles for their California-based children who are unlikely to lead royal lives.> Richard Kay in Daily Mail 25/06/24
Just because you've empathy and you understand someone's traumatic past is the cause of their harmful behavior, doesn't mean you should continue to tolerate them hurting you. Unconditional love doesn't mean unconditional tolerance. Empathy without boundaries is self-destruction.