Mass GOP Attacks AG Healey’s Office About Judge’s ‘Misconduct’ Finding in Drug Lab Review

Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Kirsten Hughes pounced Thursday on a Boston Herald report linking Attorney General Maura Healey's office with a criminal drug lab review that a state judge labeled as acting in "gross misconduct," according to the newspaper.

Superior Court Judge Richard J. Carey, according to the Herald, "skewered" two of Healey's former assistant attorneys general — Anne Kaczmarek and Kris Foster — over a May 2016 review prepared by Healey along with a duo of retired judges and two state troopers that concluded that "no merit in any of the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct or obstruction of justice" existed against the two assistant AGs, despite allegations they failed to provide defense attorneys with medical records related to state chemist Sonja Farak, who was later proven to have been using drugs prior to her January 2013 arrest.