Invoices show Karen Read retrial cost taxpayers more than $1.4 million

(WJAR) — Massachusetts taxpayers are footing a bill of more than $1.4 million for the prosecution of Karen Read, based on NBC10 tabulations of invoices released late Wednesday afternoon by the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office through a public records request.

Each billed the District Attorney’s office close to $600,000, by NBC10’s calculations of the invoices.

Read was convicted in June of drunk driving, but a jury found the Mansfield woman not guilty on the more serious charges of second degree murder and manslaughter in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe…

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