We have a little more to the story of the resignation of U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins.
We knew she was under investigation.
We also knew that the investigation had expanded beyond the believed Hatch Act violation.
What we did not know was that it was WAY beyond that.
Guilty!
Rollins was found guilty of violating the Hatch Act by the Inspector General, but that is nothing to the real fat on this bone.
It turns out, Rollins was leaking information and unethically helping a fellow Democrat.
The report stated, “Rollins’s efforts to advance Arroyo’s candidacy included providing negative information about Hayden to The Boston Globe and suggesting where the Globe could look to find more information.
“The evidence demonstrated that at a critical stage of the primary race, Rollins brought her efforts to advance Arroyo’s candidacy to the MA USAO, when she used her position as U.S. Attorney, and information available to her as U.S. Attorney, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to create the impression publicly, before the primary election, that DOJ was or would be investigating Hayden for public corruption.”
It went on that Rollins was “trying unsuccessfully to convince her First Assistant U.S. Attorney to issue a letter that would have created the impression that DOJ was investigating Hayden and, when that effort failed, disclosing non-public, sensitive DOJ information directly to a Herald reporter before the primary election.
“Then, after the Herald did not publish the story before the primary election and Arroyo lost to Hayden, Rollins disclosed additional information to the Herald to damage Hayden’s reputation while he was an uncontested candidate in the general election.”
Boy does that sound familiar.
I wonder who came up with that idea first… Rollins or Antony Blinken.
Regarding the Hatch Act violation, the report stated that she “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.
“We also found Rollins’s efforts to blame her staff for her own ethics failures deeply disturbing and contrary to her own independent responsibility as U.S. Attorney to hold herself to a high ethical standard and exercise sound judgment.”
When this was first brought up, Rollins taunted Republicans that her visit had been approved.
It looks like she may have jumped the gun a bit on that celebration.
Source: Fox News
