Rachael Rollins resigned on Tuesday amid a pair of investigations that found she violated federal ethics law.
—which governs federal employees’ political activities—the office “has ever investigated,” including violations that threaten to “erode public confidence in the integrity of federal law enforcement actions.”
Rollins—who announced plans Tuesday to resign by the end of the week—allegedly violated the act by leaking sensitive DOJ material to theabout a potential federal investigation into then-interim Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden over “potential misconduct,” as Hayden was campaigning in the 2022 DA race—Rollins supported Hayden’s opponent Ricardo Arroyo, according to the report.Globe
reporter saying her office did not know she was speaking with the outlet, and to attribute her comments as “sources close to the Rollins Administration.” The OSC report alleges Rollins also violated the Hatch Act by attending a Democratic fundraiser in July 2022 with Jill Biden at a private home in the suburban town of Andover, Massachusetts, and later claimed on Twitter she had “approval” to attend, even though she never received it.
Rollins also received automatic monthly campaign contributions from her Suffolk County DA race, even after she was sworn in as a federal attorney, collecting nearly $600 from seven donors between January 2022 and September 2022, according to the report.
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