**Governors and Background Checks: The Case of LaMar Cook**
Governor Maura Healey, I’m pleading with you: please hand over the “complete background check” on your top deputy, LaMar Cook. You specifically mentioned it recently after his arrest on charges of drug trafficking 47 pounds of cocaine—including 18 pounds found in your very own personal office in Springfield. You told reporters that he “underwent a complete background check”—your words, not mine. So, what’s the problem? Let’s see LaMar Cook’s complete background check.
The Herald has filed a public records request for it with both your office and the State Police, who normally handle this sort of process. When the phone doesn’t ring, we’ll know it’s the hackerama. Again. Frankly, there’s more accountability in Venezuela right now than in Massachusetts government.
What’s the problem? LaMar Cook’s record must have come back spotless, judging by the glowing statement you issued upon hiring him—and his boss, Kristen Elechko, a blow-in from Pennsylvania who, after graduating from an all-girls college, moved to Northampton and took part in the Gay Games.
As she told the alumnae magazine at Mount Holyoke College, “It feels like such an honor to represent the LGBTQ community.” That’s all the background check Kristen needed, right Governor? But what about LaMar Cook—the gang-banging thug with a record as long as his arm in criminal, civil, and family courts?
Despite all that, non-law enforcement officials like us have been able to uncover much on LaMar in less than 10 minutes. The State Police must have lacked access to those same publicly available records, right? Surely you wouldn’t have gushed over him and the Gay Games athlete from Mount Holyoke College when you hired them in 2023.
You called them “two proven leaders with deep ties to Western Mass. They know the communities; they know the businesses. They know the needs and opportunities of the region.” Keep slobbering, Governor. “We’re excited to welcome them to the administration and encourage residents to get in touch with them.”
A word to the wise: if you’re getting in touch with LaMar, it might be best to use a burner phone.
Then there’s the plus-sized lieutenant governor. She, too, couldn’t be more enthusiastic about Elechko and Cook. “This dynamic Western Massachusetts duo will make a major impact on the region.” Yes, 47 pounds of cocaine can indeed make a major impact—especially once the blow is cut with fentanyl.
“(These) well-known and trusted leaders will have the support of the governor and me each step of the way.” That’s very reassuring, I’m sure.
Which is why I don’t see why you and the very ethical troopers are stonewalling the release of the “complete background check.” We all know that Gov. Maura Healey would never so unconditionally endorse someone if there were any red flags whatsoever.
For instance:
– If he’d ever been arrested in a gang shooting in Springfield.
– If his name was all over documents in probate and small-claims court followed by the word “defendant.”
– Or if there was a reason why, despite his numerous awards as a “businessman,” he carried a Georgia, rather than a Massachusetts driver’s license.
These days, even illegal immigrants carry state driver’s licenses. The only way you can be turned down by the Registry is if you haven’t been paying. Oh, never mind.
The State Police are well known for their thorough background checks. Just ask Leigha Genduso, a gangster’s moll who admitted to a federal grand jury that she was a drug dealer, a drug abuser, a money launderer, an income-tax evader, and a perjurer. The State Police instantly hired her as a trooper—no questions asked!
Like LaMar Cook, she passed the background check with flying colors. She had low friends in high places.
Apparently, LaMar’s 2001 shooting charges (with a $10,000 bail) have similarly vanished from state court records. I wonder why.
But there’s a federal database called the Interstate Identification Index III, which disseminates information compiled by the National Crime Information Center. Cops tell me that even if someone “expunged” LaMar Cook’s record at the state level, it’s very unlikely his name wouldn’t have popped up on the III.
I’ve tried to get somebody to run LaMar’s name through the III, but apparently it’s one of those firing offenses for cops if they can’t cover their tracks.
It comes back again and again: why don’t the governor and/or the State Police just release LaMar’s “complete background check”?
On Sunday, after becoming the first governor in U.S. history to have 18 pounds of cocaine delivered to her own personal office, Healey went on “Face the Nation” on CBS. The Democrat fluffer didn’t even mention the shattering of yet another glass ceiling.
Maura tore into President Trump for the Schumer Shutdown, but there were no follow-up questions about why she was complaining that the state didn’t have $210 million or $240 million (she can’t even remember the monthly cost) for the November SNAP handouts.
Here are two follow-up questions that maybe Bari Weiss, the new boss of “See BS” News, should have suggested to her Democrat anchor cupcake:
1. “Would you have these welfare funds for your own citizens, Governor, if you hadn’t squandered $4 billion on the hordes of illegal aliens from Haiti who’ve come to Massachusetts to flop—some of whom have been raping disabled children or their own daughters when not selling drugs?”
2. “How much is stashed in your state’s rainy-day fund right now, Governor? Is it $8.65 billion? So isn’t it a fact that you have more than enough cash to pay for food stamps to every member of the non-working classes in Massachusetts for more than three years before you would even need a dime of federal money?”
But it was all softball, just like always on the channels nobody watches. The only reason Maura was there at See B-S was because she knew there would be no tough questions, only fluffing—just the same as all regime-controlled media in Boston.
Seldom is heard a discouraging word. It’s a lot like a Mass State Police background check, come to think of it.
**Release LaMar’s records, now. What have you got to hide, Governor?**
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/11/05/howie-carr-whats-the-secret-gov-release-lamar-cooks-background-check/
