Detective Sergeant Robert Kennedy and his girlfriend racked up more than $50,000 of unpaid rent, while being evicted from apartment complexes. Over that three-year period, payroll records show Kennedy made more than a half-million as a police officer.
According to housing court records, the pattern stretched back two decades. An elderly couple had to kick Kennedy and his wife out of their Woburn property in 2008. They told NBC10 Boston they still haven't collected the $6,000 judgment they are owed.
"It's unusual if someone has the money to pay their monthly housing expense and they don't do it," bankruptcy attorney Frank Morrissey said after reviewing the case."What's the explanation? Where did the income go?" On Jan. 25 — the deadline we had given Kennedy to schedule an interview — he wrote to the town's retirement administrator.
However, even after leaving the force, money questions will follow Kennedy. Perhaps the biggest one is how he and his girlfriend received $10,000 from the state’s rental assistance program."We are overwhelmed right now, your honor," Kennedy responded when asked by a housing court judge last August if he and his girlfriend are indigent."In one way, do I make money? Yes, I do sir. In another way, I can’t pay for everything on my plate right now.
This is the second high-profile incident involving a Stoneham police officer in the past year. Last April,and is awaiting trial.
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