Rachael Rollins

Federal prosecutors and the Massachusetts Department of Correction have agreed to changes in response to findings that the state’s treatment of inmates with mental health issues was “unconstitutional.” After an investigation launched in 2018, former U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in 2020 that his office and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice had found reason to believe…

A Berklee College of Music student who is a citizen of China was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening and harassing a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in China, according to federal investigators. Xiaolei Wu, 25, was charged with one count of stalking, the office of U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins of Massachusetts announced. According to Department of…

50 years after Title IX was passed, women in sport are still fighting for equity. Leaders at the top of their game talk about where we are and where we go from here.

The lawyers representing at least 30 of the migrants are calling on U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey to formally open investigations into the coordination behind this situation.

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has announced a grand jury investigation into a case after a Boston Globe report raised questions about the office’s handling of it. The case centers on an April 2021 incident involving an off-duty MBTA Transit Police officer who allegedly got into an altercation with another driver. According to the Globe, the officer is...

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office says it is actively investigating a case that has drawn criticism following an investigation by the Boston Globe. The newspaper reported Saturday on an April 2021 incident in which MBTA Transit Police officer Jacob Green allegedly pulled a gun on a driver in a traffic dispute while off-duty. Jason Leonor called 911 after the…

Eight people from Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for their alleged roles in an elaborate money laundering operation in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood.

Federal and county prosecutors say they are expanding their efforts to combat a recent rise in “hate-based incidents” in the Boston area amid concerns about the possibility of increased activity in the coming months and years. Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced Monday that he is adding civil rights prosecutors at the district and superior court levels due to a…

A local artist and activist is demanding action from Boston police after he was apparently assaulted by a group of white supremacists who marched in the city this weekend. Charles Murrell, who is Black, spoke briefly after meeting with Mayor Michelle Wu, where he and a group of advisers called for an independent investigation around what they said is the…

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins spoke out against hate and vowed investigations after dozens of people in white supremacist group Patriot Front held a march in Boston.

After white supremacists marched through the streets of Boston over the weekend, city and law enforcement leaders provided a unified front against hate speech but noted that the First Amendment allows hate groups to say many objectionable things, up to a point. The FBI is among the groups investigating Saturday’s march by Patriot Front, in which at least one...

A California man has been indicted by a grand jury in Boston for allegedly filming an 11-year-old girl as she changed in her bedroom. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins announced that 23-year-old Jacob Guerrero was indicted on one count of sexually exploiting a child following his arrest on April 14, stemming from an incident in which he allegedly climbed…

A Massachusetts lawyer was arrested on federal bribery and fraud charges Friday after he allegedly tried to bribe Medford’s chief of police to get a company’s marijuana business license approved. Federal prosecutors and the FBI outlined the alleged “pay-to-play scheme,” in which Somerville attorney Sean O’Donovan allegedly tried to give $25,000 to a relative of Medford’s police chief, who...

Officials from the U.S., Colombia and Jamaica shared how infiltration by undercover officers, cooperating witnesses and confidential sources revealed the complicated plot to exchange dollars for Colombian pesos and clean the money through U.S. banks.

Rachael Rollins was formerly sworn in as the 55th U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts on Friday, more than three months after she assumed the post. While Rollins has been on the job since she took the oath of office during a private ceremony in January, Friday’s ceremony inside the Boston federal courthouse marked her official swearing-in ceremony. Rollins was flanked...

Rachael Rollins was officially sworn in as the new U.S. Attorney on Friday.

Police department reform is coming to Springfield, Massachusetts. The City of Springfield has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to make changes to its policies and training procedures after an investigation into “unconstitutional practices” surrounding use of force at the Springfield Police Department’s Narcotics Bureau. In 2020, the Department of Justice announced findings...

Federal prosecutors say there was nothing holy about a series of matrimonies after they say they busted a “large-scale marriage fraud agency.” Authorities say 11 suspects were indicted Thursday on charges of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and immigration document fraud. “These weddings were not love stories, this isn’t the movie ‘The Proposal’ with Sandra Bullock or Ryan Reynolds,”...

A man convicted of drug charges in federal court in Boston has been ordered by a judge to forfeit about $2 million worth of Bitcoin, the first judicial forfeiture of cryptocurrency in the federal District of Massachusetts, prosecutors said. Binh Thanh Le, 25, of Brockton, described by prosecutors as the leader and organizer of a sophisticated drug trafficking operation that…

The accomplishments of women worldwide are being honored on International Women’s Day Tuesday.