Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) opted not to prosecute U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachael Rollins after the Office of the Inspector General determined that she lied under oath and referred its allegation to the DOJ.
– the “[u]se of nonpublic information.” The OIG said that during its interview with Rollins, she “falsely testified under oath…when she denied” providing the non-public information to theThe OIG only began receiving tips about Rollins’s alleged conduct in the district attorney’s race after it launched an investigation into her presence at a Democrat Party fundraiser where first lady Jill Biden was in attendance last summer, according to the investigation.
We therefore concluded that Rollins attended a partisan political fundraiser without approval from the Deputy Attorney General, or her designee, as required by Department policy, and her attendance was contrary to the ethics advice she received before the event that gave permission for Rollins to meet and greet with Dr. Biden separately from the fundraiser but did not include approval from the Deputy Attorney General, or her designee, to attend the fundraiser itself.
The Office of the Special Counsel is conducting a separate investigation into this matter, the report states. Moreover, the report concluded that she solicited 30 tickets to a Boston Celtics game for “youth basketball players for use by her in connection with her official position as U.S. Attorney” and that she accepted two “tickets that the Celtics provided to her due to her official position,” in violation of the Standards of Ethical Conduct.
Ahead of the report’s release, former Inspector General Michael Bromwich, an attorney for Rollins, said she would resign before the weekend, Commonwealth Magazine
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