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Massachusetts AG’s workplace spent practically $300K on state bank cards final fiscal yr
August 4, 2025, 3:07 pm CDT
Massachusetts Lawyer Normal Andrea Campbell speaks to the media in February 2025 earlier than a listening to in federal court docket concerning birthright citizenship. (Picture by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe through Getty Photographs)
A visit to France was among the many estimated $288,000 in bills charged to state bank cards final fiscal yr by Massachusetts Lawyer Normal Andrea Campbell’s workplace, in accordance with a tally of bills by the Boston Herald.
The most important expense incurred by Campbell was greater than $13,000 for attending a convention and associated occasions in France hosted by the Nationwide Affiliation of Attorneys Normal and the Lawyer Normal Alliance, the article experiences. Campbell traveled with a employees member and a state trooper.
About half of the U.S. state attorneys normal made the journey to France, which was principally funded by firms, in accordance with an August 2024 story by the Related Press.
The bank card was additionally used to cowl greater than $10,000 for overflow house on the Fairfield Inn throughout an annual Nationwide Cyber Crime Convention in Boston, the article experiences.
Campbell and a state trooper additionally traveled to St. Thomas within the U.S. Virgin Islands in June to attend the annual assembly of the Lawyer Normal Alliance. That journey included only one expense on Campbell’s bank card for fiscal yr 2025—a $49 airport meal.
The Boston Herald is looking for the whole bills for the journeys to France and St. Thomas.
The story famous that Campbell has not enforced an audit of the state legislature that was authorised by voters.
“The lawyer normal ought to put as a lot effort into implementing the audit of the legislature … as she does reserving out-of-state journeys,” Paul Diego Craney, spokesman for the nonprofit Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, instructed the Boston Herald.
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