New documents released by the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office show the Commonwealth spent more than $1.4 million in taxpayer money to prosecute Karen Read a second time.

Invoices show special prosecutor Hank Brennan was paid $556,000 from September, 2024 through June, 2025, when Read was acquitted of the most serious charges in the case against her.

Prosecutors tried to prove that Read hit her then-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV then left him to die in a snowstorm outside of a Canton home in 2022.

Read’s first trial ended in a mistrial because of a hung jury.

According to the newly obtained documents, the District Attorney paid $10,000 to a law firm to help with the jury selection process in the second trial.

Other expenses included nearly $600,0

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