BOSTON (SHNS) – Citing a criminal investigation, Gov. Maura Healey declined to divulge in a TV interview what she knew about a 2001 incident involving a former aide who in October was arrested and charged with cocaine trafficking.
Healey remained tight-lipped when NCB 10 reporter Matt Prichard asked if she was aware of LaMar Cook’s “2001 gun charge.”
Cook, former deputy director of the governor’s western Massachusetts office, was fired after authorities seized about 8 kilograms of cocaine delivered to the state building in downtown Springfield where he worked.Cook’s arrest in connection with that development has prompted scrutiny into his past…