The Massachusetts State Retirement Board suspended pension benefits for Gregory Raftery, the retired Massachusetts State Police trooper who was sentenced Tuesday for his role in the department’s overtime scandal.

The state board discussed Raftery, 47, of Westwood, during an executive session meeting Thursday morning and decided to halt the former trooper’s pension benefits, according to the state treasurer’s office. Raftery, who retired last year amid the investigation, receives a monthly payment of $6,017.07.

One of dozens of troopers flagged for alleged overtime abuse, Raftery was sentenced on Tuesday to three months in prison and a year of supervision. He also was ordered to pay a restitution of $51,337, the amount of money he made for overtime hours he skipped.

The former trooper pleaded guilty in July to one count of embezzling a state agency that’s receiving federal funds. Sources told MassLive that he was the only trooper who skipped triple-digit shifts on the Accident Injury Reduction Effort patrols, or AIRE, the specialized overtime patrols on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Eric Chin, the former state trooper who was sentenced on Monday, skipped fewer overtime shifts and pocketed $7,125 for the hours he didn’t work.

In an internal audit, Massachusetts State Police flagged 46 troopers who had earned money for overtime hours they didn’t work. The overtime investigation focused on the now-disbanded Troop E, which exclusively worked the AIRE shifts.

Raftery not only skipped AIRE shifts, but planned the coverup during his regular shifts, federal prosecutors said. He spent part of his regular shifts writing down license plate numbers on cars that passed him on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Then he cited those in fake tickets he claimed to have given out during the overtime shifts he skipped.

According to the sentencing memorandum for Raftery, he submitted those falsified citations to his superiors and destroyed copies that should have gone to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, so that the tickets wouldn’t actually be recorded with the registry.

U.S. Attorneys Mark Grady and Dustin Chao, who prosecuted the case, stated in the sentencing memorandum that the troopers’ misdeeds resulted from a quota. Members of Troop E were required to give out at least eight citations during the specialized overtime patrols they were assigned.

The state retirement board sent Raftery’s case for review under a hearing officer, who will hold a hearing and investigate whether he is eligible for pension forfeiture, according to the treasurer’s office. Once the hearing officer submits his findings and recommendations to the board, members will make a determination about what happens to Raftery’s pension.

Under state law, public employees who are convicted of a criminal offense relevant to their office of position are subject to pension forfeiture. If the board finds they must forfeit their pension, the public employee will only be allowed to receive money he or she already contributed to the fund but lose out on the interest that other retirees typically receive.

The state retirement board also sent Chin’s case for review, according to the treasurer’s office. Chin was fired in December and has not applied for retirement benefits, but the state retirement hearing officer plans to investigate Chin’s eligibility for forfeiture as well.

Chin, who was fired in December, was sentenced to three months of house arrest, followed by nine months of supervision.

Eight troopers have pleaded guilty to embezzlement in federal court. Three troopers are also facing state charges. Lt. David Wilson is the only trooper in the group who is facing both state and federal charges.