Canton Coverup Part 500: Hank Brennan Was Knowingly Paid $20K In Drug Money Under The Table By Convicted Rapist Attorney Gary Zerola According To Michael Proctor’s Former State Trooper Classmate Leigha Genduso

 

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Seven years ago Turtleboy was the first to report on a major State Police scandal, that they had hired a trooper who was a former drug dealer previously investigated by the MSP themselves. What I was not aware of until recently, was that Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan was also involved in that scandal.

Leigha Genduso graduated from the State Police Academy in 2014 in the same class Michael “Chip” Proctor did.

She was immediately given privileges that other troopers weren’t, including access to plate readers and a gig on the K-9 unit – something the State Police require 5 years of employment to become a part of. She was featured on the cover of magazines (that she sought out), and is still do this day on State Police Facebook posts recruiting women to become troopers.

Her meteoric rise was clearly influenced by her relationship with then boyfriend Lt. Colonel Dan Risteen, who has since resigned in disgrace for his involvement in Genduso’s scandal, as well his involvement in the Lt. Governor Tim Murray crash scandal in 2011.

Genduso rubbed shoulders with a lot of powerful people, including former Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, and was close with former State Police Colonel Marian McGovern.

Genduso was reprimanded, but not fired in 2015, after an internal investigation revealed that she had used the CJIS to look up her boyfriend’s background.

When Jannell Webb used CJIS to look up a license plate, which ended up proving that DA Michael Morrissey had lied about Michael Proctor having no personal relationships with any witnesses, she was indicted for conspiracy to commit witness intimidation.

However, what was not being reported until I first reported it in 2018, was that Genduso was an admitted drug dealer and money launderer, who had escaped a two year prison sentence by becoming a cooperating witness for the government and testifying against her former boyfriend Sean Bucci during his trial in federal court in 2007. She had admittedly lied to a grand jury once before that in an attempt to protect herself.

Genduso ironically testified that she created a website called “whosarat.com,” which is still in existence today, and is used to dox confidential informants who have given information to police.

In her testimony Genduso admitted that on the morning police raided the North Reading house she lived in with Bucci in 2003, Bucci instructed her to hide $275K in drug money that the police would have confiscated, which was located in a box in his trunk.

Bucci was arrested but Genduso slipped away with the money, which she brought to Bucci’s mother’s house. Bucci instructed her from jail to give $50K to his attorney Gary Zerola – who was formerly featured on People Magazine’s most eligible bachelors. Zerola is now serving a 5 year prison sentence after being convicted of rape. It was the 5th time he was charged with sexual assault, but he was acquitted on all the previous charges. His attorneys included McAlbert Mafia lawyers Joe Krowski Jr. and Hank Brennan.

Also arrested was co-conspirator Darren Martin, who couldn’t afford an attorney. According to Genduso’s to testimony Hank Brennan showed up to visit Martin in jail and tell him he was representing him after being paid $20K in drug money by Genduso and Bucci through Attorney Zerola. No receipt was provided, so it’s unclear if Brennan ever reported the transaction to the IRS.

Zerola and Brennan were well aware that the cash they were being without any receipts, came from the illegal proceeds from drug sales.

Darren Martin testified that he had no idea who Brennan was, and that he just showed up at jail. According to Martin, Hank Brennan told him that his retainer for Martin had been paid by Bucci’s illegally laundered drug money.

Sssshhhhh…don’t tell anyone.

In 2010 an Ohio attorney named Charles McGowan was sentenced to six months in prison for failing to report a $10K cash transaction from a marijuana dealer. Like Zerola, McGowan took a drug king pin’s money and distributed it to other attorneys to represent associates of the defendant.

In 2005 a Seattle attorney named James L. White plead guilty after admittedly not reporting a $100K cash payment from a drug dealer he represented. The judge reprimanded him for accepting drug money and not reporting it:

“If a guy comes to you and asks you to defend him in a drug case and gives you $100,000 in a backpack, common sense says you should explore the source of the money,” said Doug Whalley, the U.S. district attorney who heads the criminal-enterprises unit that is handling the drug case against Kesling and two other men.

So the question is, did Hank Brennan report the $20K to the IRS that he admittedly knew was drug money? Other attorneys have been sentenced to federal prison for doing what Brennan did.

But perhaps the more important question here is, why did the Norfolk County DA’s Office hire such a slimy, unethical mob lawyer to prosecute Karen Read? We know that Brennan has ties to the McAlberts, and that he is close with McAlbert Mafia attorneys Joe Krowski Sr and Joe Krowski Jr.

But when he was first hired with taxpayer money (after every other ADA in Morrissey’s Office refused to prosecute the case) Brennan said that he was doing so in order to make sure Read received a fair trial:

“I assume full responsibility and all obligations for prosecuting this case and will do so meticulously, ethically, and zealously, without compromise,” Attorney Brennan wrote in a statement. “I have two core obligations. The first is to make certain that Karen Read receives a fair trial. Ms. Read will receive the dignity and fairness that every defendant deserves in our criminal justice system. The second is to ensure that the facts surrounding John O’Keefe’s death are fully and fairly aired in the courtroom without outside influence.”

This turned out to be a lie. Brennan’s actions thus far have proven that he is not actually seeking justice, truth, or fairness, as he has repeatedly tried to prevent Karen Read from calling expert witnesses and hiring the counsel of her choice. He has “misrepresented” facts several times in pre-trial hearings, has smeared me as some sort of mob-like witness intimidator, and has had the audacity to suggest that Attorney Mark Bederow was unethical.

Ya know what Mark Bederow has never done? Accepted $20K out of a “money box” that he knew came from the illegal sale of drugs. Bederow hasn’t spoken glowingly about a mass murderer like Whitey Bulger. Bederow hasn’t aligned himself with a business associate attorney who’s been charged with rape 5 times.

If Hank Brennan ever has the balls to hold a press conference, hopefully a reporter asks him if he ever documented and reported this $20K cash payment from a known drug dealer, with money that he knew was being hidden from the government.