The RICO Lawsuit Nobody In Power Wants You To Read

Kate Putnam
Nov 23, 2025
3 min read

Updated: Dec 1, 2025

The NE Edge lawsuit is not just another corporate squabble. It reads like a blueprint for a “loan to own” criminal enterprise designed to seize a multibillion-dollar data corridor by any means necessary.

The Allegations

The allegations are serious:

Malicious prosecution to financially break a CEO
A coordinated hit squad of corrupt officers
Illegal spyware used as a weapon
Secret-court judges used as tools to force outcomes
A network of insiders passing the same players between cases

And right there in black and white, circled in the filings, sits Detective Karl Dugal. He’s alleged to have:

Colluded with a private attorney to frame the plaintiff
Threatened, intimidated, and maliciously prosecuted an innocent party
Acted as part of a coordinated enterprise of police, lawyers, and shadow judicial actors

The picture painted by the pleadings is not “a rogue officer.” It’s a system that requires him.

The RICO case essentially says: Dugal was the enforcement arm of a larger scheme.

Massachusetts’ Hidden Machinery: How Detective Karl Dugal Became the Nexus of a Two-Case Conspiracy

The John O’Keefe Murder Cover-Up

And then, without missing a beat, that same name flows into the Canton timeline. The same officers. The same behaviors.

The same architecture.

The Evidence

Evidence goes missing
Phones are wiped
Cellebrite data doesn’t match carrier logs
Key calls are unaccounted for
Timelines are manipulated
A woman is blamed while a police officer lies dead

This wasn’t sloppy policing. It was methodological.

The same enterprise accused of weaponizing law enforcement to steal a business suddenly appears at the center of a police-involved murder cover-up.

The public is told these cases are unrelated. But the filings, the timelines, and the overlapping players say otherwise.

Where does the trail lead?

Right back to Dugal.

The Secret Court System That Makes All This Possible

Massachusetts has a uniquely disturbing structure hidden in plain sight; a mechanism the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team exposed years ago, then had to sue the courts to get answers about.

Show Cause Hearings

“Show cause” hearings are:

Held in private offices
Have no public record
Run by clerks, not judges
Require no law degree for officials
Allow cases to be dismissed quietly and forever
Enable officers to swear out charges without scrutiny

This is not oversight. It’s a pressure valve for corruption.

These hearings create:

Cover for malicious prosecution
A shield for insider deals
A tool for retaliatory charges
A playground for coordinated networks that know the rules don’t apply to them

The RICO suit alleges this shadow infrastructure was weaponized.

The O’Keefe case shows how it destroys truth.

And again; inside the machinery, the same officer keeps appearing.

The Financial Nexus

Your visuals show this beautifully; so here’s the written punchline:

When you map the financial profiles of the key players:

One officer receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in “overtime”
Another appears in a federal pyramid of questionable payments
The victim sits at a humble $35k; the only one not financially inflating in the system

When someone’s pay looks like a stock chart, you look at the slope.

When multiple cases hinge on the same officers, you look at the pattern.

When the same system keeps producing the same outcomes, you look at the architecture.