How did a gun-toting cocaine-dealing career thug get a $115,000-a-year job as a top aide to Gov. Maura Healey?

Who approved this appalling hire? Who signed off on gangbanger LaMar Cook being granted access to ship eight pounds of blow directly to Maura’s office suite in Springfield, as well as another 19 pounds of coke to a hotel on the UMass-Amherst campus?

Early on, Healey blurted out that her hack minion passed a background check by the State Police. But since that admission, all inquiries — even by fawning, regime-controlled media like the Globe — have been met with total stonewalling.

Still, we’re learning more about the role the MSP may have played in this ongoing scandal, if indeed Maura was telling the truth, which you can never assume with anything she says.

Both the governor’

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