A Massachusetts Governor’s aide indicted on gun and drug trafficking charges claimed it would be ‘inequitable’ if he lost out on his $31,438 vacation time payout.
Lamar D Cook, 46, was fired from Governor Maura Healey’s Springfield office following his arrest in October and paid out for roughly 530 hours of unused leave.
In a lawsuit filed in January, Healey claimed the money was ‘erroneously paid out’ and ordered he return it with interest included, the Boston Globe reported.
In April, Cook fired back in court documents. He claimed that paying the money back would violate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices.
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Cook was terminated via email after a sting operation revealed a 17-pound package containing bricks of cocaine addressed to his office in Springfield, police claimed.
A state trooper posing as a UPS driver allegedly caught Cook retrieving the package as it was delivered.
Prosecutors also allegedly found a digital scale in his office with traces of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine.
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More than 21,000 grams of cocaine were intercepted during the investigation, police said.
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