Welcome to Cape Cod Fraud Squad — the unofficial accountability page that the local political establishment desperately wishes did not exist.
This site was built by a fed-up Cape Codder with no web design degree, no political connections, and no patience left for the kind of small-town corruption that gets winked at year after year while the rest of us follow the rules, pay our taxes, and play by the book.
Why This Site Exists
In the past few years, a remarkable parade of Cape Cod public officials has been caught breaking the law, violating ethics rules, abusing their offices, and in at least one case, allegedly committing federal wire fraud. Not one of them was removed from office by the Massachusetts political establishment. Not one was held meaningfully accountable by the Beacon Hill machine that protects its own. Every single consequence that has come — fines, indictments, public pressure to resign — came from outside the system: from federal prosecutors, from ethics commissions, from newspapers, and from citizens like you who refuse to look away.
That’s what this site is. Citizens refusing to look away.
The Cape Cod Corruption Roster (So Far)
State Representative Chris Flanagan (D-Dennis) — First caught creating a fictitious person named “Jeanne Louise” to run a fraudulent campaign mailer in 2022. Fined by OCPF. Refused to resign. Then, on April 11, 2025, federally indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsifying records for allegedly stealing money from the Home Builders Association of Cape Cod and using it to pay his mortgage, credit cards, and political campaign. He is presumed innocent — but the federal grand jury thought the evidence was worth a trial. See our full Flanagan page for the complete story.
District Attorney Robert J. Galibois II — Cape and Islands DA who was fined $5,000 by the State Ethics Commission for using the resources of the DA’s Office to spin public narratives after his own car accident and to promote a campaign donor’s rental apartments to his staff. Admitted to the violations. Still in office. Still prosecuting other people for their misconduct. See the full Galibois page.
Sheriff Donna Buckley — Barnstable County Sheriff who publicly refused to cooperate with ICE immigration enforcement, oversaw a department where a lieutenant created a hostile work environment with sexually degrading language, saw a corrections officer arraigned for allegedly beating an inmate, and whose department was linked to taxpayer-funded casino spending. See the full Buckley page.
This Is Satire. And It Is Also The Truth.
We want to be clear: this site is satirical in nature. We are not a news organization. We have no reporters, no editors, no lawyers on retainer. We are a citizen with a WordPress installation and a deep conviction that the people who hold public trust should be held accountable — by the voters, by the press, and by each other.
Everything cited on this site is based on publicly available information: court documents, state ethics commission findings, media reports, and federal indictments. We link our sources. We don’t make things up — unlike at least one of the officials profiled here, who literally invented a fictional person to cover his tracks.
What Can You Actually Do?
In Massachusetts, you cannot recall a state representative. You cannot recall the DA. The system is, by design, insulated from the people it’s supposed to serve. But you are not powerless. You can vote. You can share this site. You can contact your elected representatives and demand they address misconduct by their colleagues. You can show up to town meetings and school board meetings and county commissioner meetings and make your voice heard. You can run for office yourself.
Most importantly, you can refuse to normalize this. When a politician breaks the law and faces no meaningful consequences, it is tempting to shrug and say “they’re all like that.” Don’t. Hold the line. Name names. Demand better. That’s what this site does, and that’s what we’re inviting you to do too.
— The Cape Cod Fraud Squad, Hyannis, Peoples Republic of Massachusetts