Is it asking an excessive amount of of Lawyer Basic Andrea Campbell to really do her actual job every now and then?
We perceive that it’s way more enjoyable for Andrea to simply 1) sue Donald J. Trump and a couple of) go on worldwide junkets to sunny locations for shady folks, all on the taxpayers’ dime.
However there are specific minimal duties that she needs to be performing, even when it’s been many years since any Massachusetts lawyer normal has even dreamed of enterprise them.
I do know, Andrea’s obtained her causes for doing nothing. All of the AG’s do. How will you anticipate her to implement that 72% vote by the voters final fall to audit the Legislature’s very dodgy books? Hey, it’s a Constitutional concern, wink wink nudge nudge.
We get it. You look the opposite method on the Legislature, and in return the Legislature provides you a 12% enhance in your price range. You scratch my again….
However there are different duties that cops are speculated to deal with. Initially, crime. Andrea, take a look at these pictures of two guys I assure you’ve by no means seen earlier than. Discover that they’re in police uniforms. They’re, or have been, cops, very crooked cops.
They’re the Ponzo brothers, previously of Stoneham, now of the federal penitentiary at Fort Dix NJ, the place they are going to be doing laborious time till early 2027.
The Ponzo brothers looted the Mass Saves boondoggle state program for $40 million — $40 million. The feds needed to take them down, as a result of the native cops are all asleep on the job, each final certainly one of them.
Did any native flatfeet discover something amiss, Andrea? No, not your AG’s workplace, not the Middlesex district lawyer, not the State Police, not the Inspector Basic, not the state auditor… no one seen nothin’.
Is there a cop left in Massachusetts who, you understand, catches criminals, versus attempting to border someone like, say, Karen Learn?
This lack of curiosity within the law-enforcement neighborhood in lugging dangerous guys is nothing new, after all. Amongst current attorneys normal, we had one man who used to stare on the portraits of his predecessors on the partitions of his workplace after which indict them.
One other AG started each certainly one of his press releases with the phrase “Sadly,” as in, “We investigated a sure dangerous man, however it seems he had some huge cash and good attorneys who contribute a variety of money to me so, sadly….”
Then there was your instant predecessor, Maura Healey. She arrange a hotline after the 2016 elections for victims of MAGA harassment. Seems the one victims of political hate speech have been Trump voters, in order that was the tip of the hotline. Too embarrassing for Democrats.
Maura pivoted to overlaying up ongoing scandals involving the corrupt state public-health lab chemists who framed greater than 30,000 drug defendants by faking the lab exams.
Maura’s best second in that scandal got here when she filed a movement to suppress the proof towards the state chemists. Then she filed a second movement, to seal the movement to seal the primary movement to broom the proof towards these good Democrat hacks.
However doing nothing labored out properly for Maura, didn’t it? Now she’s the governor. So Andrea follows in her footsteps. Like Sgt. Schultz, Andrea is aware of nothing.
Have a look, if you’ll, on the docket within the subsequent lawsuit that’s most likely going to finish in tons of, if not hundreds of felony convictions being tossed out.
That is Commonwealth v. Gerson Pascual-Santana. It entails an ex-judge, Douglas Darnbrough, and his, ahem, relationship with an assistant district lawyer in Bristol County named Karlyn Butler.
The fees are that Darnbrough, age 56, was seeing a variety of the 33-year-old prosecutor. The allegations have been made in some nameless letters. Darnbrough rapidly resigned from his $207,855-a-year part-time hack job – an unheard-of transfer for a previously ravenous lawyer, which is what Darnbrough was.
A former decide has now been appointed “particular grasp to research the character and extent of the connection between” the 2 alleged lovebirds.
Within the case being appealed, nubile younger Karlyn requested for a two-year sentence. Her good friend on the bench gave him 3 1/2 years – greater than the prosecution demanded. The district lawyer obtained an awesome headline about being robust on crime. God solely is aware of what the decide obtained.
By the way in which, Darnbrough and Butler are white. The defendant is an individual of shade. Can somebody say “disparate remedy?”
The explanation I’m bringing to the eye of our MIA AG is that nearly every little thing on this tawdry case is impounded. Try the docket to see for your self.
That is the way in which it’s throughout Massachusetts. Within the halls of justice, the one justice is within the halls. Something – completely something that may embarrass The Social gathering is suppressed, impounded, sealed, dominated confidential, granted protecting orders, and many others. and many others.
Have a look at all of the Turtleboy paperwork. The hacks are simply dragging their ft. They’re additionally attempting to not should launch any of disgraced ex-Trooper Michael Proctor’s texts in any of the homicide instances.
I do know, it’s not Andrea’s job to reform this horribly corrupt system. Or so she says. However isn’t justice delayed justice denied?
And in a case this tawdry, which can have racial overtones, wouldn’t or not it’s higher to let the general public know what’s occurring, as a substitute of attempting to cowl every little thing up, the way in which Meatball Morrissey does in Norfolk County?
I do know these are robust questions for the lawyer normal to ponder, particularly when she’s on a transatlantic flight, sipping champagne and combating jet lag.
However at the very least the Ponzo brothers are grateful, Andrea, to each you and Maura Healey. From their jail cells, they are saying, thanks for nothing. With out all you cops in Massachusetts wanting the opposite method and doing completely nothing, they wouldn’t have capable of steal that $40 million.
As all the time, Andrea, thanks for nothing.
