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Massachusetts AG’s workplace spent almost $300K on state bank cards final fiscal yr
By Debra Cassens Weiss
August 4, 2025, 3:07 pm CDT
Massachusetts Legal professional Normal Andrea Campbell speaks to the media in February 2025 earlier than a listening to in federal court docket relating to birthright citizenship. (Photograph by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe through Getty Pictures)
A visit to France was among the many estimated $288,000 in bills charged to state bank cards final fiscal yr by Massachusetts Legal professional Normal Andrea Campbell’s workplace, based on a tally of bills by the Boston Herald.
The biggest 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 Legal professional Normal Alliance, the article studies. Campbell traveled with a workers member and a state trooper.
About half of the U.S. state attorneys normal made the journey to France, which was largely funded by corporations, based on an August 2024 story by the Related Press.
The bank card was additionally used to cowl greater than $10,000 for overflow area on the Fairfield Inn throughout an annual Nationwide Cyber Crime Convention in Boston, the article studies.
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 Legal professional 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 full 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 permitted 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, informed the Boston Herald.
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