Stunned by the scope of the drug lab scandal, state legislators sought assurances Wednesday from State Police that safeguards are in place at crime laboratories to prevent the type of alleged “rogue activity” by chemist Annie Dookhan that led to the shutdown of the Department of Health lab in Jamaica Plain.
Major James Connolly, the commanding officer of the State Police crime lab, told the legislators that while it would be difficult to prevent such activity outright, “We’re confident . . . it would not go on for long.”
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After the Probation Department, Bulger, Finneran, diMasi, Galluccio, Marzilli, Wilkerson et al., it is difficult to believe there is any scandal large enough to truly "stun" the Massachusetts state legislature.
Unless it involves one of their own actually being convicted.