The DOJ says disgraced ex-prosecutor Rachael Rollins by no means used a taxpayer-funded bank card throughout her embarrassingly transient stint within the federal workplace — however it’s a thriller if that’s true in the present day at her neighborhood faculty job.
Rollins works part-time for Roxbury Neighborhood School, incomes $80,000 yearly, however the Greater Ed workplace has refused to reveal whether or not she has a taxpayer-paid P-card, also called a procurement card.
The feds, nevertheless, had been fast to clear up any doubt.
“We conducted a search within (federal) Procurement Services Staff, which oversees the Department’s Purchase Card Program, and found no records responsive to your request,” John Thompson, deputy basic counsel on the Division of Justice, instructed the Herald.
The Herald filed a public data request with each federal and state officers after a two-part report on Rollins’ exorbitant bank card expenditures throughout her time as Suffolk DA. Data of these payments present Rollins spent a complete of $33,132 on her P-card as DA — all paid for by Suffolk County taxpayers.
The payments present she jetted off 18 occasions in her first 12 months as DA, going to spas in Eire and Virginia, staying in posh inns and being a daily on the “stylish and elegant” Oceanaire Seafood Room within the Monetary District, to call only a few of the eating places she frequented.
In response to the state Comptroller’s workplace, it was her job to police using workplace bank cards, together with her personal whereas being paid $190,999 as DA.
Rollins was the Suffolk district legal professional from January 2019 till being sworn in as U.S. Legal professional for Massachusetts on Jan. 10, 2022 — with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. She resigned on Could 19, 2023, following two scathing Division of Justice experiences on her rocky tenure, the place she was accused of attempting to affect the result of the Suffolk DA’s race and attended a DNC fundraiser in Andover in a attainable ethics violation.
The state Division of Greater Training has instructed the Herald “the Department is not in possession, custody, or control of any responsive records. Please be advised that if any such records exist, they would be maintained at the institutional level.”
They did affirm her wage on the neighborhood faculty is: “Annual Rate — $79,999.”
That’s for her put up as particular tasks administrator at Roxbury Neighborhood School engaged on the college’s new Undertaking to Help Returning Residents exiting jail.
A neighborhood faculty spokeswoman has knowledgeable the Herald that “at this time,” they’re “not responding to media inquiries regarding Rachael Rollins.”
The Herald has filed a brand new public data request with the neighborhood faculty and appealed the denial of the data request by the state Greater Ed workplace.
Rollins has not responded to quite a few requests for remark.
