Massachusetts AG fighting crime … in Paris

Is it asking too much of Attorney General Andrea Campbell to actually do her real job once in a while?

We understand that it’s much more fun for Andrea to just 1) sue Donald J. Trump and 2) go on worldwide junkets to sunny places for shady people, all on the taxpayers’ dime.

But there are certain minimal duties that she should be performing, even if it’s been decades since any Massachusetts attorney general has even dreamed of undertaking them.

I know, Andrea’s got her reasons for doing nothing. All the AG’s do. How can you expect her to enforce that 72% vote by the electorate last fall to audit the Legislature’s very dodgy books? Hey, it’s a Constitutional issue, wink wink nudge nudge.

We get it. You look the other way at the Legislature, and in return the Legislature gives you a 12% increase in your budget. You scratch my back….

But there are other tasks that cops are supposed to handle. First of all, crime. Andrea, check out these photos of two guys I guarantee you’ve never seen before. Notice that they’re in police uniforms. They are, or were, cops, very crooked cops.

They are the Ponzo brothers, formerly of Stoneham, now of the federal penitentiary at Fort Dix NJ, where they will be doing hard time until early 2027.

The Ponzo brothers looted the Mass Saves boondoggle state program for $40 million — $40 million. The feds had to take them down, because the local cops are all asleep on the job, every last one of them.

Did any local flatfeet notice anything amiss, Andrea? No, not your AG’s office, not the Middlesex district attorney, not the State Police, not the Inspector General, not the state auditor… nobody seen nothin’.

Is there a cop left in Massachusetts who, you know, catches criminals, as opposed to trying to frame somebody like, say, Karen Read?

This lack of interest in the law-enforcement community in lugging bad guys is nothing new, of course. Among recent attorneys general, we had one guy who used to stare at the portraits of his predecessors on the walls of his office and then indict them.

Another AG began every one of his press releases with the word “Unfortunately,” as in, “We investigated a certain bad guy, but it turns out he had a lot of money and good lawyers who contribute a lot of cash to me so, unfortunately….”

Then there was your immediate predecessor, Maura Healey. She set up a hotline after the 2016 elections for victims of MAGA harassment. Turns out the only victims of political hate speech were Trump voters, so that was the end of the hotline. Too embarrassing for Democrats.

Maura pivoted to covering up ongoing scandals involving the corrupt state public-health lab chemists who framed more than 30,000 drug defendants by faking the lab tests.

Maura’s greatest moment in that scandal came when she filed a motion to suppress the evidence against the state chemists. Then she filed a second motion, to seal the motion to seal the first motion to broom the evidence against those good Democrat hacks.

But doing nothing worked out well for Maura, didn’t it? Now she’s the governor. So Andrea follows in her footsteps. Like Sgt. Schultz, Andrea knows nothing.

Take a look, if you will, at the docket in the next lawsuit that’s probably going to end in hundreds, if not thousands of criminal convictions being tossed out.

This is Commonwealth v. Gerson Pascual-Santana. It involves an ex-judge, Douglas Darnbrough, and his, ahem, relationship with an assistant district attorney in Bristol County named Karlyn Butler.

The charges are that Darnbrough, age 56, was seeing a lot of the 33-year-old prosecutor. The allegations were made in some anonymous letters. Darnbrough quickly resigned from his $207,855-a-year part-time hack job – an unheard-of move for a formerly starving lawyer, which is what Darnbrough was.

A former judge has now been appointed “special master to investigate the nature and extent of the relationship between” the two alleged lovebirds.

In the case being appealed, nubile young Karlyn asked for a two-year sentence. Her friend on the bench gave him 3 1/2 years – more than the prosecution demanded. The district attorney got a great headline about being tough on crime. God only knows what the judge got.

By the way, Darnbrough and Butler are white. The defendant is a person of color. Can someone say “disparate treatment?”

The reason I’m bringing to the attention of our MIA AG is that almost everything in this tawdry case is impounded. Check out the docket to see for yourself.

This is the way it is across Massachusetts. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. Anything – absolutely anything that will embarrass The Party is suppressed, impounded, sealed, ruled confidential, granted protective orders, etc. etc.

Look at all the Turtleboy documents. The hacks are just dragging their feet. They’re also trying not to have to release any of disgraced ex-Trooper Michael Proctor’s texts in any of the murder cases.

I know, it’s not Andrea’s job to reform this horribly corrupt system. Or so she says. But isn’t justice delayed justice denied?

And in a case this tawdry, which may have racial overtones, wouldn’t it be better to let the public know what’s going on, instead of trying to cover everything up, the way Meatball Morrissey does in Norfolk County?

I know these are tough questions for the attorney general to contemplate, especially when she’s on a transatlantic flight, sipping champagne and fighting jet lag.

But at least the Ponzo brothers are grateful, Andrea, to both you and Maura Healey. From their prison cells, they say, thanks for nothing. Without all you cops in Massachusetts looking the other way and doing absolutely nothing, they wouldn’t have able to steal that $40 million.

As always, Andrea, thanks for nothing.