Is it asking an excessive amount of of Legal professional Basic Andrea Campbell to truly do her actual job from time to time?
We perceive that it’s way more enjoyable for Andrea to only 1) sue Donald J. Trump and a couple of) go on worldwide junkets to sunny locations for shady individuals, all on the taxpayers’ dime.
However there are particular minimal duties that she ought to be performing, even when it’s been many years since any Massachusetts legal professional common has even dreamed of endeavor them.
I do know, Andrea’s acquired her causes for doing nothing. All of the AG’s do. How will you count on her to implement that 72% vote by the citizens final fall to audit the Legislature’s very dodgy books? Hey, it’s a Constitutional difficulty, wink wink nudge nudge.
We get it. You look the opposite method on the Legislature, and in return the Legislature offers you a 12% enhance in your finances. You scratch my again….
However there are different duties that cops are speculated to deal with. To begin with, crime. Andrea, try these photographs of two guys I assure you’ve by no means seen earlier than. Discover that they’re in police uniforms. They’re, or had 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 arduous 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 one in all them.
Did any native flatfeet discover something amiss, Andrea? No, not your AG’s workplace, not the Middlesex district legal professional, 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 realize, catches criminals, versus making an attempt to border any person like, say, Karen Learn?
This lack of curiosity within the law-enforcement group in lugging dangerous guys is nothing new, after all. Amongst current attorneys common, 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 one in all his press releases with the phrase “Sadly,” as in, “We investigated a sure dangerous man, but it surely seems he had some huge cash and good attorneys who contribute a number of money to me so, sadly….”
Then there was your rapid predecessor, Maura Healey. She arrange a hotline after the 2016 elections for victims of MAGA harassment. Seems the one victims of political hate speech had been Trump voters, in order that was the tip of the hotline. Too embarrassing for Democrats.
Maura pivoted to protecting up ongoing scandals involving the corrupt state public-health lab chemists who framed greater than 30,000 drug defendants by faking the lab checks.
Maura’s best second in that scandal got here when she filed a movement to suppress the proof in opposition to the state chemists. Then she filed a second movement, to seal the movement to seal the primary movement to broom the proof in opposition to these good Democrat hacks.
However doing nothing labored out nicely 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 in all probability going to finish in a whole lot, if not 1000’s of felony convictions being tossed out.
That is Commonwealth v. Gerson Pascual-Santana. It includes an ex-judge, Douglas Darnbrough, and his, ahem, relationship with an assistant district legal professional in Bristol County named Karlyn Butler.
The fees are that Darnbrough, age 56, was seeing a number of the 33-year-old prosecutor. The allegations had 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 analyze 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 buddy on the bench gave him 3 1/2 years – greater than the prosecution demanded. The district legal professional acquired an awesome headline about being robust on crime. God solely is aware of what the decide acquired.
By the best way, Darnbrough and Butler are white. The defendant is an individual of coloration. Can somebody say “disparate remedy?”
The explanation I’m bringing to the eye of our MIA AG is that nearly all the pieces on this tawdry case is impounded. Take a look at the docket to see for your self.
That is the best way it’s throughout Massachusetts. Within the halls of justice, the one justice is within the halls. Something – completely something that may embarrass The Get together is suppressed, impounded, sealed, dominated confidential, granted protecting orders, and so forth. and so forth.
Take a look at all of the Turtleboy paperwork. The hacks are simply dragging their toes. They’re additionally making an attempt 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 it’s higher to let the general public know what’s happening, as a substitute of making an attempt to cowl all the pieces up, the best way Meatball Morrissey does in Norfolk County?
I do know these are robust questions for the legal professional common to ponder, particularly when she’s on a transatlantic flight, sipping champagne and preventing jet lag.
However a minimum of 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 trying the opposite method and doing completely nothing, they wouldn’t have in a position to steal that $40 million.
As all the time, Andrea, thanks for nothing.
