Former police officer from Quincy sentenced in Boston overtime fraud case

BOSTON − A former Boston police union president from Quincy has been sentenced to two years of probation after he pleaded guilty to fraudulently collecting overtime pay, WCVB reported.

Thomas Nee, 67, of Quincy, had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of embezzlement from a program that receives federal money.

Nee will also have to pay back about $16,642 he collected for overtime hours he claimed but did not work, a federal judge ruled.

He was one of more than a dozen Boston officers charged, including several from the South Shore.

Nee is a former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, the city's largest police union.

Nee submitted false overtime slips for “purge” and “kiosk” overtime hours that he did not work at the evidence warehouse, investigators said.

Prosecutors said that during overtime shifts when Nee was supposed to be helping clear the Boston police Hyde Park warehouse of old, unnecessary evidence, he routinely left after two hours but claimed to have worked four on timeslips.

During a once-a-month shift when Nee and other officers were supposed to be driving around to police precincts collecting old prescription drugs and taking them to an incinerator, he claimed to have worked more than eight hours despite only working three or four.