While the District Attorney appears ready to prosecute people without influence, Mr. Conte apparently has a soft spot for members of the Massachusetts State Police.

The Auburn C-Pac unit is under direct control of Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte.  Having this control DA Conte can then decide who to investigate and who not to. 

Troopers assigned to this office have been provided with thousands of hours in overtime pay associated with certain favored Conte investigations.

DA Conte claims this State Police unit investigates major crimes yet over the past years numerous questions have been raised as to the "questionable" use of these troopers.

December 17, 2005

Wife of Sizzler defendant allegedly pressured witness

WORCESTER— A key witness in the case against Brian R. McCullough, a carnival maintenance supervisor charged with manslaughter in the 2004 death of Andrew R. Fohlin on a Sizzler amusement ride, was pressured by the defendant’s wife to recant his story, a prosecutor said in court yesterday.

“The recantation by Mr. Cruz was so critical to the grand jury. The commonwealth knowingly withheld from the grand jury a statement to Trooper (Thomas J.) Poirier that he had made the entire story up because he was mad at Mr. McCullough for firing him,” Mr. Cooper said. “There is no evidence whatsoever that anyone pressured any one to say anything.”

It appears that the first amendment right to free speech does not apply in Worcester County.

Worcester DA John Conte expects us to believe a real danger of the murder of judge Waickowski was present, which meet a criminality level, yet DA Conte waited twenty one (21) days to attempt to remove this individual from society.

May 10, 2005

During DA Conte's 1994 political campaign,  Invitations to a $100-a-plate Conte fund-raiser in March attracted less than a handful of C-PAC members.  This according to Lt John V. Dunn caused the DA to become dismayed.

The allegation that Conte violated state law surfaced in May when Lt. John V. Dunn, a state trooper formerly assigned to the Worcester Crime Prevention and Control unit, requested a transfer. Dunn accused the district attorney of pressuring subordinates to support Conte's re-election campaign.

Dunn said the district attorney had threatened to transfer the entire C-PAC unit if it did not support his re-election bid. In a letter to Conte, he said Conte apparently had lost confidence in him. "Unfortunately, your measurement is based on my ability, or lack of same, in amassing political support among the members of Worcester C-PAC, rather than the performance of those officers," Dunn wrote.