Governor Baker Appoints New State Police Chief, Pivots Around Questions Regarding Dual Retirements Following ‘TrooperGate’

BOSTON — Governor Charlie Baker announced the appointment of a new superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police on the heels of Colonel Richard D. McKeon's abrupt retirement days after a state trooper slapped him and the agency with a federal lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to scrub embarrassing and lurid details from the arrest report of a prominent judge's daughter.  "Today I swore-in Lieutenant Kerry Gilpin as the new superintendent colonel of the Massachusetts State Police," Baker said du

BOSTON — Governor Charlie Baker announced the appointment of a new superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police on the heels of Colonel Richard D. McKeon's abrupt retirement days after a state trooper slapped him and the agency with a federal lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to scrub embarrassing and lurid details from the arrest report of a prominent judge's daughter.  "Today I swore-in Lieutenant Kerry Gilpin as the new superintendent colonel of the Massachusetts State Police," Baker said du…