DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) – New documents released by the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office show the Commonwealth spent more than $1.4 million in taxpayer money to prosecute Karen Read a second time.
Invoices show special prosecutor Hank Brennan was paid $556,000 from September, 2024 through June, 2025, when Read was acquitted of the most serious charges in the case against her.
Prosecutors tried to prove that Read hit her then-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV then left him to die in a snowstorm outside of a Canton home in 2022…