On March 26, 2019, Gregory Raftery — a 22-year Massachusetts State Police trooper assigned to Troop E on the Massachusetts Turnpike — was sentenced to 90 days in federal prison, one year of supervised release, and ordered to pay $51,377 in restitution after pleading guilty in July 2018 to one count of embezzling funds from a state agency receiving federal funds under 18 U.S.C. § 666. Raftery, the first defendant to plead guilty and the first to face incarceration in a sweeping overtime fraud scandal, admitted that during 2015 and 2016 he collected approximately $51,000 in overtime pay under the federally funded Accident and Injury Reduction Effort traffic-safety program for shifts he either left early or did not work at all. To conceal his absences, Raftery compiled citation information from his regular shifts and manufactured fabricated motor-vehicle tickets, filing only the State Police copy of each phony citation while destroying the carbon copies that should have routed to the courts, the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and the supposed offenders — leaving a one-sided paper trail with no matching entry in any independent system. The case grew from an internal State Police audit that ultimately implicated 46 current and former Troop E members. U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young, who presided over sentencing, described the scheme as extensive, sophisticated, and motivated by nothing but greed — a finding that carried particular weight given that the grant program Raftery defrauded existed solely to reduce fatal crashes on I-90. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.