A Massachusetts State Police sergeant has to forfeit accrued vacation days after failing to reprimand embattled trooper Michael Proctor for text messages sent about the Karen Read case .
Sergeant Yuriy Bukhenik was ordered to forfeit 5 days of accrued leave following an internal affairs investigation where he “failed to properly supervise and/or counsel a subordinate for sending inappropriate correspondence regarding an ongoing investigation,” and “failed to properly document the inefficiencies of a subordinate according to the Department’s EES manual,” according to the disciplinary order.
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The discipline stems from Trooper Michael Proctor’s testimony in the Karen Read murder trial, where he sent a series of disparaging texts about Read that he sent to friends, family, and supervisors. Those texts were read aloud in court during her July trial, which ultimately ended in a mistrial.
Proctor was the lead investigator in the murder investigation and Bukhenik was his direct supervisor.