Embattled Soros-backed U.S. attorney resigns following DOJ ethics investigation

Rachael Rollins will leave her post as the Massachusetts U.S. attorney on Friday… An embattled George Soros-backed U.S. attorney announced that she would resign this week, hours before the release of a Department of Justice investigation that concluded she broke campaign finance laws and lied under oath. Rachael Rollins will leave her post as Massachusetts U.S. attorney on Friday, her attorney said late Tuesday. The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General on Wednesday concluded a months-long investigation into whether Rollins violated the Hatch Act after she attended a Democratic National Committee fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden in the summer of 2021. The DOJ said in its report: “We found Rollins’s conduct described throughout this report violated federal regulations, numerous DOJ policies, her Ethics Agreement, and applicable law, and fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee,…