{"id":8547,"date":"2018-05-08T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=241637b5442eadd950ec07ad24d3c7ef"},"modified":"2018-05-08T14:13:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:13:20","slug":"court-asked-to-levy-fines-for-misconduct-in-lab-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/08\/court-asked-to-levy-fines-for-misconduct-in-lab-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Court asked to levy fines for misconduct in lab scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; Attorneys are asking Massachusetts&#8217; highest court to levy fines against the state attorney general&#8217;s office because former prosecutors tried to minimize the scope of a state drug lab scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Segal of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts told the Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday that sanctions are necessary to prevent such misconduct from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>A judge found that two former assistant attorneys general withheld evidence about the scope of former chemist Sonja Farak&#8217;s misconduct. Farak pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from a state drug lab.<\/p>\n<p>MassLive.com reports that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Bocian told the judges that fines aren&#8217;t justified and there are already measures in place to ensure it doesn&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU is also asking the court to toss additional convictions linked to Farak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &mdash; Attorneys are asking Massachusetts&rsquo; highest court to levy fines against the state attorney general&rsquo;s office because former prosecutors tried to minimize the scope of a state drug lab scandal. Matthew Segal of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts told the Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday that sanctions are necessary to prevent such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8548,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}