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Board of Bar Overseers finds misconduct in Farak case

THE BOARD OF BAR Overseers has found that three assistant attorneys general engaged in numerous acts of misconduct related to the Attorney General’s prosecution of drug lab chemist Sonja Farak.  In a 98-page decision, special hearing officer Alan Rose found that the attorneys – former assistant attorneys general Anne Kaczmarek and Kris Connolly Foster and former chief of the criminal division John […]

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Bar oversight agency considers misconduct by attorneys in lab scandal case 

THE STATE Board of Bar Overseers on Monday began a two-week hearing to decide whether to recommend disciplinary action against three attorneys who worked for former attorney general Martha Coakley, who are accused of withholding evidence in the case of rogue drug lab chemist Sonja Farak.  Assistant Bar Counsel Stacey Best, whose office oversees complaints against lawyers and is arguing […]