Karen Read, Hank Brennan
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Less than a month after Karen Read was acquitted of murder, she is taking steps to seek the dismissal of a civil lawsuit filed by John O'Keefe's family.
The second prosecution of Karen Read cost taxpayers in Massachusetts more than a half million dollars. New invoices obtained by WJAR through a public records request show special prosecutor Hank Brennan billed the Norfolk District Attorney’s office $566,000 from September 2024 through the verdict in June.
Jurors begin deliberations in Karen Read's second murder trial after Friday's closing arguments and judicial instructions from Judge Beverly Cannone.
At issue now is a newly declassified CIA report, ordered by Ratcliffe, that faults Brennan’s oversight of a 2017 intelligence community assessment that found that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election because Russian President Vladimir Putin aspired to see Trump beat Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton.