Former Boston Police Union Boss Pleads Guilty In Overtime Scheme

QUINCY, MA — An ongoing investigation of overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department's evidence warehouse has the former president of Boston Police Patrolmen's Association and Boston set to plead guilty Monday.

Thomas Nee, 64, of Quincy, and the former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, is set to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and one count of embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds, according to the Department of Justice District of Massachusetts.

According to federal documents, from at least January 2015 through February 2019, the former president and former Boston police officer submitted false and fraudulent overtime slips for overtime hours he did not work at the evidence warehouse.

Between January 2015 and August 2017, he allegedly collected about $16,642 for overtime hours he did not work, charging documents said.

Nee is one of 15 Boston police officers to be charged in connection with committing overtime fraud at the department's evidence warehouse, and the ninth officer to have pleaded guilty.

In May, Sgt. William Baxter was charged for submitting overtime slips for hours he did not work, and in June he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds. He is expected to be sentenced on October 21, 2021.

Nee's successor as union president and retired Boston police officer Patrick Rose is awaiting trial on 33 counts of sexually abusing children after prosecutors said he raped five children under the age of 14. Rose has pleaded not guilty.

A plea hearing for Nee has not yet been scheduled.

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