Karen Read’s civil attorneys demand documents from DA, FBI, MSP, DOJ

Attorneys defending Karen Read in a civil suit by the family of John O Keefe are demanding a wide range of documents involving her criminal scenario from state prosecutors to the Massachusetts State Police to federal agencies Subpoenas filed in the civil action demand All documents communications audio or video recordings or other information or items of any kind relating in any way to the review and prosecution of Karen Read and to the death of John J O Keefe III or any examination into his death as well as a wide array of related materials be turned over to Read s attorney s office by Wednesday at a m The request targets the Norfolk District Attorney s office which prosecuted Read for the murder of O Keefe a Boston Police officer she had dated for about two years before his death on Jan Jurors earlier this summer acquitted Read of all criminal charges including murder except for the least serious they could consider drunken driving The end of her criminal trial meant that the civil action filed by the O Keefe family against her could resume The subpoenas go much further than the Norfolk DA s office however and also target any materials held by the State Police who investigated O Keefe s death and from federal agencies including the FBI and the Department of Justice meaning its local arm the Boston U S Attorney s office which had a hand in probing that inspection The demands also target individuals affiliated with those agencies including affair investigators MSP Trooper Yuriy Bukhenik and fired Trooper Michael Proctor Proctor was put on leave at once after Read s first trial ended in mistrial last year and was fired before her second trial got started this April almost entirely to sustained statements of unprofessional behavior during the O Keefe probe The MSP inquiry that led to his firing discovered that he had shared negative personal opinions of Read from early in his inspection and even shared classified investigatory information on the event with those not entitled to it Just weeks ago defense attorneys in several cases involving Proctor were stated that the Norfolk DA had a cache of iCloud information from his work and personal phones and that it would be deleted Those attorneys who claim they were blindsided by the disclosure this information existed then sought and won an urgency month-long extension of its scheduled deletion arguing the trove could contain materials that could show a similar bias against their own clients Read s civil suit attorneys likewise want their hands on that information For the avoidance of doubt this Subpoena demands that you maintain and do not delete discard or otherwise destroy and portion of Michael Proctor s iCloud or other information that you have in your current possession custody or control including but not limited to the input subject to a federal court protective order which you previously agreed at a hearing before the Norfolk Superior Court to maintain until July a subpoena document states The subpoena also requests All documents and communication with FBI DOJ or MSP regarding the cases of Sandra Birchmore Brian Walshe and Myles King all of whom are related to cases investigated by the Norfolk contingent of MSP investigators Federal prosecutors say Birchmore was killed in her Canton apartment by then-Stoughton cop Matthew Farwell who prosecutors say groomed the younger woman since she was a child impregnated her and then killed her Walshe is accused of murdering his wife Ana Walshe at their Cohasset home on Jan Myles King is accused of shooting to death Marquis Simmons outside his mother s home on Belvoir Road in Milton a little before p m on July