By Erica Noonan
The Boston Globe
BOSTON — The investigation began with an anonymous phone tip to the Department of Public Health: The caller claimed an EMT-paramedic for Salem-based Cataldo Atlantic Ambulance Service had received a recertification card without actually attending a mandatory advanced cardiac life-support training class.
State investigators requested documentation for the class, purportedly taught on Feb. 21 at the Burlington Police Department to five students. According to a state investigative report obtained by the Globe, they discovered that the course was never held.
The trail led to a 24-year Lexington firefighter, Mark Culleton, who investigators say falsified training records while working as the department’s in-house training coordinator for six colleagues. Investigators say he also faked recertification for more than 30 other emergency medical technicians and paramedics working for other ambulance companies through his medical training company, Life Saving Maneuvers of Billerica.
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