Former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has thrown her hat in the ring to get her old job back. And she’s making no apologies for the way she left public office three years ago.
After serving as Boston’s top prosecutor from 2019 to 2022, Rollins was named U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts under former President Joe Biden. But she resigned from that high-profile federal post in 2023, amid scathing ethics allegations.
Now, Rollins says she’s decided to run for Suffolk County DA again because people in the community encouraged her to do so, and then helped collect the signatures she needed to get a spot on the September Democratic primary ballot…