Bibaud case closed after admitting facts
Judge’s daughter gets continuation, probation
A drugged-driving case that toppled the state police command staff and put a district attorney and the state’s public safety chief under investigation ended quietly yesterday in Framingham District Court with an admission of facts and referral to a treatment program.
Alli Bibaud, 31, the embattled daughter of Dudley District Court Judge Timothy Bibaud, was granted a continuation without a finding, placing her on probation until Jan. 16, 2019.
Framingham District Court Judge James Sullivan ordered Alli Bibaud to not operate a motor vehicle, not consume alcohol or drugs and to submit to random screening tests.
Bibaud was also ordered to complete an inpatient treatment program and to enter a sober living facility upon release.
Lawyer Lenny Kesten, who represented the state troopers who were ordered to scrub Bibaud’s original arrest report, told the Herald yesterday that the judge’s daughter “wasn’t receiving special treatment.” Kesten added that the inpatient program sentencing was “harsher than the first offender OUI liquor program.”
“Under the first offense liquor program, you normally don’t have to go to inpatient,” Kesten said. “It’s a very appropriate sentence, given her problems.”
Bibaud was arrested on drug and drunken-driving charges on Oct. 16, 2017, after troopers Ryan Sceviour and Ali Rei responded to a car crash on Interstate 190 in Worcester. Bibaud then allegedly suggested that “she would offer sexual favors in return for leniency,” while also admitting that she “performed sexual acts in order to pay for the drugs.”
Sceviour and Rei turned in reports on Oct. 17, which were approved by a supervisor and delivered by a court officer to Worcester District Court. But Sceviour’s reports were later ordered to be edited by a state police major.
Days after the scandal broke, state police Col. Richard McKeon retired, followed by Lt. Col. Francis Hughes and Lt. Col. Daniel Risteen.
In November, Sceviour filed a federal lawsuit against McKeon and the major who ordered him to make changes. Gov. Charlie Baker and Attorney General Maura Healey launched investigations to determine what roles were played by the state police, District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. and Secretary of Public Safety Daniel Bennett.