The official accusation against Bellingham Police detective Bo McGinty is 'misappropriation of funds,' but put simply: he spent his colleague's dry cleaning funds that weren't being used.
Police detective Bo McGinty is "misappropriation of funds," but put simply: he spent his colleague's dry cleaning funds that weren't being used."I don’t understand it, and I don’t try" said McGinty, speaking from a friend’s house days after packing up his family’s home. "I feel like someone’s driving this train, and I don’t know who."
He went on to request additional funding for dry cleaning, never realizing that higher-ups viewed the use of his colleague’s dry cleaning allotment as theft. Meanwhile, McGinty was sitting at home wanting to get back to work. Over the course of the department’s internal investigation, he was collecting roughly $20,000 while on administrative leave. That doesn’t include the cost to investigate.