The legal professional for former U.S. Lawyer and ex-Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins, who’s going through “public discipline” from the state bar, is looking the board’s course of “perplexing.”
Rollins, who resigned as U.S. Lawyer in 2023 amid two federal studies that discovered she abused her place, has “disciplinary proceedings pending,” in response to a posting by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.
However it’s unclear what alleged offense triggered the disciplinary proceedings, or what disciplinary motion Rollins could also be going through.
Rollins’ lawyer, who additionally represents the Herald, issued an announcement concerning the self-discipline proceedings on Monday.
“The professionals tasked by the Board with responsibility for conducting an investigation into the actual facts of the matter — and who have indeed been highly responsible, honorable and discreet in conducting that investigation — and Ms. Rollins are in agreement about its appropriate resolution and closure,” wrote legal professional Jeffrey Robbins, of Saul Ewing LLP.
“For reasons that are perplexing to Ms. Rollins and perhaps others, the Board has not yet approved the resolution recommended by its own professionals, who are intimately familiar with the actual facts of this matter,” her lawyer added. “It is Ms. Rollins’ sincere hope that the Board will adopt the recommendations of its own highly skilled professionals rather than disregard them.”
The Board of Bar Overseers “has no comment on the Rollins matter,” Normal Counsel Joseph Berman wrote in an e-mail to the Herald on Monday.
Whereas the circumstances of what alleged violation triggered the general public disciplinary proceedings are unclear, the Board of Bar Overseers is listed as starting to overview the matter roughly two years after Rollins resigned in shame because the Massachusetts U.S. Lawyer.
Rollins stepped down in Might 2023 after being scorched in two federal studies that discovered she abused her place, partially, by leaking false data to the media in an effort to affect the result of the Suffolk District Lawyer’s race in favor of her most well-liked candidate, ex-Boston Metropolis Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, who misplaced to DA Kevin Hayden.
The violation was “among other” situations of significant misconduct flagged by then-Division of Justice Inspector Normal Michael Horowitz in his scathing report back to Congress.
The 2 Division of Justice studies acknowledged that Rollins confronted additional self-discipline from the feds if she didn’t promptly give up.
The federal investigation was sparked by Rollins’ look at a Democratic Nationwide Committee fundraiser headlined by then-First Girl Jill Biden, in potential violation of the Hatch Act, after it was first reported by the Herald.
