KAREN READ MISTRIAL SPARKS SEX & POLICE CORRUPTION SCANDAL

Feds probe cops for playing bold beauty as a patsy

ACCUSED cop killer Karen Read may have beaten the rap in Massachusetts for murdering her policeman beau when a judge declared a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury — but now the brainy beauty is trapped in a burgeoning sex scandal with her hunky attorney as fuming prosecutors vow not to abandon their quest to put her behind bars!

Meanwhile, sources snitch the feds are eyeing allegedly corrupt lawmen who may be the true culprits in the unsolved death of respected Officer John O’Keefe — Read’s boyfriend, who was a 16-year veteran of the force and a devoted single dad to his orphaned niece and nephew!

A hung jury failed to convict Read, 44, more than two years after the former Bentley University professor was arrested and charged with killing O’Keefe with her car as he lay in a snow bank, but some investigators suspect his death was part of a vast conspiracy to bury police corruption!

Sources blab badge-wearing bad guys are the focus of a hush-hush federal investigation seeking to reveal if Karen is being played for a patsy!