State Police Lt. Jennifer Penton really hit the jackpot Monday.

The former reality TV show star (“Boston’s Finest”) was charged in Worcester with involuntary manslaughter and perjury in the 2024 beating death of Enrique Delgado-Garcia.

And now it comes out that she is deeply enmeshed in yet another major MSP scandal – the alleged cover-up of a fatal 2023 MV accident in Woburn.

In that one, she wrote the report on a fellow state trooper who reportedly tested .11 for blood alcohol content, after passing out, crossing the center line and striking a disabled-transport van head-on.

Penton handled the investigation of Trooper Scott Quigley, a legacy cop. She made no mention of his toxicology tests. She didn’t interview him for eight days after the accident.

In the end, after the fatal accident, she only wrote him a warning for a marked-lanes violation.

To repeat, after killing somebody, with a reported BAC of .11 while on duty, Quigley received a warning from Jenn Penton.

It’s called professional courtesy.

For her stellar service in 2023-24, both in Woburn and at the academy in New Braintree, Penton was promoted to lieutenant.

As for Quigley, who now claims his .11 blood test at the Lahey in Burlington can’t possibly be correct, he was promoted to sergeant after killing the disabled guy.

When it comes to the Mass State Police, you can’t make this stuff up.

This column is about Lt. Penton, and how far she’s come, involved in two major MSP scandals that are breaking almost simultaneously.

When she was briefly featured on the TV series in 2013, Penton gave an interview to her hometown paper in New Bedford, in which she made this prescient statement:

“I don’t think that there’s anything a man can do that a female can’t.”

Mission accomplished! No male trooper, disgraced, convicted or both, has ever been involved in two front-page scandals in a single day! Not even Michael Proctor or Dan Griffin.

“You want to be a part of a team and get things done regardless of your gender.”

She’s got some things done now, all right. She was just stripped of her police certification yesterday. The next step in her extinguished law-enforcement career will be telling the judge, “Not guilty, Your Honor.”

Looking back, the first sign that Lt. Penton was going places, for better or for worse, was when she had that publicity photo taken for the “Boston’s Finest” TV series.

She posed with, among others, Sgt. Brian Albert, on whose Canton lawn the body of Karen Read’s boyfriend was found back in 2022. Birds of a feather….

Her cop partner, at least in the show, was Pat Rogers, whose best friend in the BPD was none other than that guy whose body would later be found in the snow on Brian Albert’s front lawn.

His name was John O’Keefe.

Rogers later killed himself before O’Keefe was himself beaten to death. During his time on the BPD, Rogers had another partner by the name of Paul Downey, who is currently under indictment for rape of a 14-year-old boy.

Jenn Penton went to Bridgewater State where she majored in criminal justice, with an emphasis, as we now understand, on criminal. Then she got a job on the New Bedford PD. By most accounts, she was never voted Miss Congeniality.

But she did strike up a friendship with a certain fast-rising male member of the Mass State Police. That guy now seems to be very close to retirement. Do you think he got a heads-up before the charges came down? Again, professional courtesy.

From New Bedford, Penton went to the Boston PD. It’s the fashionable career move for the ambitious local female cop nowadays – you know, like Kelly Dever of “false memory” fame in the Karen Read trial.

Dever is no longer a cop either – call it the Curse of Karen Read.

On my radio show Monday, I interviewed Bill Dolan, one of the defense lawyers who’s broken the story about the covered-up Quigley fatal accident in Woburn, and Penton’s handling of it. Dolan said Penton has quite the file in BPD Internal Affairs. I’m going to request it today.

But hey, a problematic background has never stopped anybody from getting hired by the State Police. Especially if they, uh, know someone.

At the same time Penton was going on the MSP, they had another nationwide search for a different woman with off-duty ties to a high-ranking cop. Her name was Leigha Genduso.

She had been a gangster’s moll, and had admitted lying to a federal grand jury, laundering money and selling drugs.

So what? Leigha was kinda hot, and she knew you-know-who, not to mention then-Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito.

Genduso got on the State Police right about the same time as Penton. A retired statie I talked to yesterday said Penton and Genduso were thick as thieves, to coin a phrase, until Genduso was finally forced out.

The background check on Genduso must have missed her perjured grand-jury testimony, just like they overlooked Penton’s BPD records, and more recently LaMar Cook’s criminal history before Gov. Healey hired him.

This killing of the cadet, and the cop charged with lying about it under oath, are yet more examples of the endless corruption in Massachusetts law enforcement.

If you’re connected, you can kill somebody, literally, and get away with it. Especially if you’re, say, a second-generation cop, like Quigley. You’re not supposed to write a warning if there’s a personal injury in an accident, let alone a fatality, but that’s what Penton did for Quigley in 2023.

People ask, how is that someone with her rather checkered past could rise so high, so fast, even in a department as thoroughly rotten as the State Police?

It helps if you’re in one of the bureaus, like the academy at New Braintree. The real cops are out on the road, and don’t have as much time to study for the exams.

At the academy, when she wasn’t allegedly involved in manslaughter and perjury, Penton had plenty of time to cram for the exams, most recently the lieutenant’s.

Now Jenn Penton is all done, and she did it to herself. They always do, one way or another.

But there is one other possible explanation for her sudden sordid fall from grace. Through Brian Albert, to Pat Rogers to John O’Keefe, to her tawdry career on the State Police, Jenn Penton had less than six degrees of separation from the Karen Read scandal.

So you can blame the downfall of Jenn Penton on whatever you want. I’m calling it the latest manifestation of that deadly hex.

The Curse of Karen Read.