The MBTA has asked a federal judge to grant a forensic expert 48 hours to examine the office computer of Milford Police Chief Thomas O’Loughlin, who the T suspects is the blog troll behind “very nasty” online attacks against the transit agency.
Joan Lukey, who is defending the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority against a discrimination suit brought by O’Loughlin, told a federal judge yesterday that T investigators have already matched e-mails O’Loughlin sent under his own name to former co-workers and e-mails they suspect he sent under assumed identities to a blog critical of the T to the Internet protocol (IP) address unique to his work computer.
Among the postings Lukey is accusing O’Loughlin of plastering on the blog are calling his successor Chief Joseph Carter “Mr. Cotton Candy” and spouting, “You get slapped down if you do your job and perks if you don’t. It’s all who you know.”
“It’s frankly almost incomprehensible that a chief of police with a law degree wrote these e-mails,” Lukey charged. “It’s astounding.”
She said the postings first began appearing on BadTransit.com from names like TCOP and REALTRANSITCOP in December 2002, four months after O’Loughlin accepted his current job in Milford. They abruptly stopped in 2004, she added, after state police, on the T’s behalf, traced them to a computer within the Milford Police Department.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Judith G. Dein has taken the request under advisement. O’Loughlin, 51, did not return a call yesterday.
His attorney, Mitchell Notis, did not deny to Dein that O’Loughlin was the mystery troll - a Web term for a blog flamethrower. But Notis said, “Whether (the T is) right or wrong,” having the chief’s computer publicly foraged “may irreparably harm his reputation.”
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