Canton Coverup Part 485: Attorney Mark Bederow Sends Letter To Police Chief Helena Rafferty Demanding Investigation Into Chris Albert For Illegal Wiretapping
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Attorney Mark Bederow sent a letter today to Canton Police Chief Helena Rafferty, asking her to investigate Chris Albert for felony wiretapping, as a result of his illegal use of audio interception devices outside of D&E Pizza, which he has been using for months, if not years, to secretly record private conversations of people passing by.
Last Tuesday night I was charged with felony witness intimidation for an incident while leaving CF McCarthy’s, the day before my motion to dismiss hearing in Norfolk Superior Court. You may have seen it on the news:
According to Brian Tully’s police report, Chris Albert contacted him at 8:15 AM on March 5 to alert him that I was seen on his surveillance videos while walking to my car on Washington Street. Instead of calling the local police, Chris Albert immediately went above their heads and contacted his personal detective at the State Police. The report states that Chris Albert has 2 cameras, including an exterior camera that records audio from outside. The interior camera mostly records audio from inside the pizza shop. Tully claims that the video shows me intimidating Chris Albert by accusing him of murdering an unnamed man, and telling him “Colin did it.” This made Chris “upset,” and for that reason he asked for the clerk at Stoughton District Court to issue an arrest warrant for felony witness intimidation.
The clerk declined to issue an arrest warrant.
When Robert Cosgrove read this report out loud in court he made it sound as if I was accusing Chris Albert and Colin Albert of being involved in the murder of John O’Keefe, and that I directed this speech towards them. However, the actual videos in evidence shows that this was a lie. Both cameras show that I’m walking by D&E Pizza and notice something in the window. I stare at it for 25 seconds before Will “The Glarer” comes over and begins doing a comedy routine with me by putting his arms through my arms in order to do the T-Rex hands.
Prior to that I hadn’t said a word, and I assumed that I was not being audio recorded since secretly intercepting audio is a crime. Chris Albert is an elected official and the brother of a Canton Police detective. I never would’ve assumed that he would blatantly violate the law by installing a device that intercepts audio of anyone who passes by, so everything I said after that I assumed would not be heard by Chris Albert due to the fact that the pizza shop was closed and Chris wasn’t there.
At that point I started doing a bit with Will, in which I said that Peter Berger wishes he was alive today. Berger was the Hungarian foreign exchange student who Chris Albert was convicted of killing in 1994 and served 6 months in jail for. Tully’s report intentionally doesn’t include the name Peter Berger because he wanted the magistrate to think I was talking about John O’Keefe. From there I made jokes, and uttered the phrase, “If Colin did it,” which is very different from “Colin did it,” which Tully put in his report.
This was nothing more than grab assin. I was making a joke and goofing around with friends. I had no idea Chris Albert could hear anything I was saying because there was nothing that indicated I was being audio recorded. I certainly wasn’t trying to intimidate anyone or get anyone to change their testimony.
But within 49 minutes of watching that video Brian Tully had filed a criminal complain application to have me arrested for felony witness intimidation, which he hoped would be done on the courthouse stairs as I went in for the motion to dismiss.
To be clear, I had no idea I was being audio recorded. Had I known I wouldn’t have done the obvious comedy bit that I was doing with Will for the purposes of making other people in our party laugh. According to MGL Chapter 272, Section 99, it is a felony to secretly record another person.
Lots of businesses have surveillance videos, but those videos are not allowed to record audio. Additionally, there are no signs anywhere on D&E Pizza that alert people passing by that they are being secretly recorded by Chris Albert.
The exterior camera was the primary camera used to audio record me, and at no time do I look at it or even notice it’s there, which Attorney Bederow noted in his letter. .
Chris Albert is Helena Raffery’s boss, and recently voted to give her a contract extension and a raise. His brother is a detective on the Canton Police Department. Chris has used the Canton Police Department to unsuccessfully have at least 10 individuals charged with “intimidating” him by exercising constitutionally protected speech outside of his pizza shop. All of these charges and criminal complaints (Canton 9 and rubber ducky kingpin Rich Schiffer) were dismissed or not filed. Yet they keep weaponizing this statute against anyone who advocates for justice for John O’Keefe and Karen Read. Canton Police are clearly not capable of fairly investigating him, and Attorney Bederow has asked Chief Rafferty to refer this matter to another law enforcement agency that isn’t conflicted.
The public has a right to know that when they walk on this public sidewalk that they are being secretly listened to by an elected official, who has shown in the past that he will disseminate those recordings to Twitter trolls for the purposes of public humiliation. On September 26 a woman parked outside D&E Pizza with the letters “FKR” written on her car windows. Unbeknownst to her Chris Albert was recording her using both his interior and exterior cameras. While inside the pizza shop he could be overheard mocking the woman, repeatedly calling her a “loser” and a “disgusting bitch.” He then sent a copy of this video to a woman named Kate Peter, who is currently being charged with felony witness intimidation against multiple people, all of whom are supporters of the Free Karen Read movement. Chris Albert chose Kate Peter specifically because he knew that she would share it on her Twitter account for the purposes of shaming the so called “disgusting bitch,” who he was secretly recording.
Ms. Peter ended up removing the video after realizing that it made Chris Albert look horrible. However, you can’t hear anything outside, which further led me to believe that nothing I said was being audio intercepted when I was on this same camera last Tuesday night. All of the audio comes from the exterior camera, which I didn’t realize was there.
The report also claims that I could be heard yelling “whats up mother fuckers” while making hand movements in front of the camera, but that video has not been provided in evidence.
For that Brian Tully wanted to have me arrested and thrown in jail. On March 18 I will be arraigned in Stoughton District Court, and there’s a good chance Robert Cosgrove will file a motion to revoke my bail for another 60 days.
The ball is now in Helena Rafferty’s court. It is undeniable that Chris Albert is actively committing a crime by illegally recording people who have no idea they are being recorded when they walk by his pizza shop. On February 1, 2022, according to group text messages from the FBI investigation, Matt McCabe and Brian Albert were worried about news media being at Chris Albert’s pizza shop. McCabe instructed Chris Albert to “just tell them the guy never went in the house.” When the media left D&E Pizza Chris could hear everything they were saying, and they had no idea. I don’t expect much from Chief Rafferty, but if she doesn’t charge Chris Albert for this then she will just be proving that I was right all along about two tiers of justice in Canton.
So glad Bederow has sent a letter to Rafferty. Good news!
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Why can’t you sue him for the illegal recording? Since it is a felony and he knows that is is against the law and has been doing it you an extended period of time.
I’m sure he can but part of the point is to demonstrate Rafferty’s corruption.
Thank you for the response. I was just asking so if someone knew if he could sue him. I am sure Rafferty will do nothing or play the “we’re looking into it” card.
Your attorney doesnt fully understand the wiretapping law.
Tik Tik Boom….l let this be an example to all the other untapped potential in cases here of people with rights violations and no attorney with balls to represent their rights. Pro Hac Vice is needed for this reason….glad a real attorney is doing real attorney things for folks here. Imagine what type of state we would have if suddenly that became a movement by itself. Kudos to Bederow for shifting the balance of power back to the people where it belongs. Someone has to pick up the slack !
Meadows decoy: I’m a researcher by profession and new to the Karen Read trial but I am caught up and have taken good notes. I see that the investigation was intentionally bumbled probably with the hope/expectation that Karen would take a plea in 2022. Some of these cops seems okay with appearing as though they are incompetent as long as they can hide the truth of what happened. I have been thinking a lot about Colin and why he was left off the original reports, leading to a focus on whether or not he was at 34 Fairview when John arrived. But then this led me to thinking more deeply about Chris and Julie Albert. Until this morning, I believed that Chris never went to 34 Fairview and it’s very possible he might not have. Perhaps this has been discussed, I just haven’t seen or heard it yet.
Now, my thoughts about how a lot of what occurred after John went into the house and subsequently ended up on the lawn happened all too perfectly for the McAlberts. This is probably because they had a decoy on Meadows.
When they saw that Karen left 34 Fairview, someone probably called Chris (or Julie if Chris was at 34) to tell her to watch for when Karen arrived back at 1 Meadows. If you think about it, those at 34 had no idea whether Karen was going around the block or would come back. Their plan worked out because they had someone on Meadows to see if she pulled into the garage. Perhaps this person waited to see if she left or would stay at John’s until morning. After Karen called Jen McCabe in the morning to say she couldn’t find John, Jen then called Nicole to say “it’s on” which is when they put the body outside. At this time in the morning, they probably wouldn’t be at risk of someone driving by to see the body as they would have had John been deposited earlier. And if by chance someone had, then the 911 call would have been close to the time Jen made hers. We all know that she didn’t hit him with her car and that the body wasn’t there but what is the theory of where the body was and when it was put outside?
The Ford Edge sighting – this could be a timeline distraction, or it could be when they removed some snow so that when they planned to place John’s body on the ground where Karen’s car was, it would be grassy. This all worked out because they had a decoy on Meadows. Chris is not looked at nearly enough. He’s been able to skate by very easily because of all the distractions with Colin and Chloe and his becoming a selectman of Canton helps keep everyone up to date on the distractions that do not point to him or the truth of the case. Chris and/or Julie was the decoy at Meadows for this to work out. I think they are all okay with where this is going because they haven’t looked enough at Chris’s positioning to tell those at 34 Fairview what Karen was doing.