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Former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins held a roundtable with reporters to discuss her goals after being sworn in as U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.

By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday afternoon confirmed Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins as the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. The Senate was deadlocked 50-50 along party lines, requiring Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie and declare Rollins confirmed as the top federal prosecutor for the Bay State. Nominated by President Joe...

President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. attorney for Massachusetts is fighting back against Republican claims that she’s not tough enough on criminals. Rachael Rollins is currently the top prosecutor for the city of Boston and several suburbs. She said on GBH News on Monday that her progressive approach to crime is working. The Senate Judiciary Committee split last week...

Democrats rallied to the defense of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins on Thursday, but the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on her nomination to become the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts after Republicans challenged her approach to prosecuting some non-violent crimes. The 11-11 vote in the Judiciary Committee means Senate Democrats will have to take an extra procedural vote...

The report published by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found that while the agency had justified reasoning to flag journalists, their tracking was not fully within CBP policy.

Republicans on Thursday postponed for a week a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nomination of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to become the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. President Joe Biden nominated Rollins in July to fill the top federal prosecutor’s role in Massachusetts, which would bring her back to an office she worked in as an...

Eight people were indicted in a nationwide, $2 million fraud scheme Wednesday out of San Diego in which scammers targeted grandparents by feeding them fake stories that their grandkids were in terrible trouble and needed money fast.

Rachael Rollins, who has pushed for progressive criminal justice reforms as the first woman of color to serve as a district attorney in Massachusetts, is being nominated by President Joe Biden to become the state’s top federal prosecutor. Rollins, who has led the Suffolk County district attorney’s office since 2019, would become the first Black woman to serve as...

A former Boston police captain has been arrested on charges that he collected more than $12,000 in an overtime pay fraud scheme at the department’s evidence warehouse, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Richard Evans, 62, of Hanover, faces charges including conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds. He is scheduled to…

A senior Justice Department official told NBC News Monday the Biden administration would begin removing most Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed during the Trump administration

A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy. Gang Chen, 56, of Cambridge, was arrested Thursday morning on charges that he abused his position as a professor at MIT to commit wire fraud, failed to file a…

A New Hampshire man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to kill six members of Congress last month if they did not “get behind Donald Trump.” Ryder Winegar, 33, of Amherst, was arrested on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire. He was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate judge on...

Federal authorities on Friday arrested two former Massachusetts State Police troopers for allegedly collecting thousands of dollars in overtime pay for hours not worked and destroying evidence in a scheme dating back to 2015. Former MSP Lieutenant Daniel Griffin and former Sergeant William W. Robertson had been charged conspiracy, federal programs embezzlement and wire fraud in connection with the scheme,…

Nine current and retired Boston police officers have been charged in connection with committing over $200,000 in overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department’s evidence warehouse, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the officers collectively embezzled over $200,000 in overtime pay between May of 2016 and February of 2019. They are all scheduled to make initial court…

Dozens of members of a notorious Boston-based gang are facing charges after a sweeping investigation involving, federal, state and local authorities. U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling on Tuesday announced charges against 32 members of the Boston-based “NOB” gang, including violent crimes in aid of racketeering and drug trafficking. NOB refers to Norton, Onley and Barry streets in Boston’s Dorchester...

Columbia Gas will pay a $53 million criminal fine for breaking a federal pipeline safety law and plead guilty to causing a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts that killed one person and damaged dozens of homes, federal officials announced Wednesday.

Columbia Gas, the utility behind the deadly 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions, will pay a $53 million fine and be sold by its parent company, NiSource.

Columbia Gas, the utility behind the deadly 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions, will pay a $53 million fine and be sold by its parent company, NiSource, after agreeing to plead guilty in connection with the disaster, authorities announced Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a press conference that Columbia Gas had agreed to plead guilty to felony violation of…

Federal prosecutors announced a major drug and gun bust in Lawrence, Massachusetts, after an investigation that took years.

Nearly 80 firearms were seized and 32 people arrested over the course of a monthslong probe into a Lawrence, Massachusetts, drug and gun trafficking ring involving gang members, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling announced Friday. Dubbed “Operation Emerald Crush,” federal, state and local authorities banded together to target suspected firearm and drug traffickers in the greater Lawrence area, the federal prosecutor said.