Rachael Rollins lands $96,000 Roxbury Community College job
Rachael Rollins has resurfaced.
The former Suffolk DA and U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, who resigned after being scorched in two separate federal reports last May, is now a part-time special projects administrator at Roxbury Community College, where she will work on the school’s new Project to Support Returning Citizens, State House News reports.
With the project, RCC plans to “develop a curriculum and services for formerly incarcerated individuals, particularly women of color,” to help people leaving prison “gain critical knowledge and develop valuable relationships, skills, and tools needed to successfully reenter the neighborhoods and larger communities where they live,” Executive Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Joyce Taylor Gibson said in a memo to RCC faculty and staff.
State payroll data made available by the state comptroller’s office shows that Rollins’ annual pay rate is $96,000 for the RCC role and that she has been paid $7,339 this year as of Feb. 24, the News Service added.
Gibson said that Rollins “brings over 25 years of legal and leadership experience to this grant-funded role.”
Two scathing reports out of the federal Department of Justice in May declared Rollins crossed the line and faced further discipline if she did not promptly quit.
Months later, the DOJ’s top watchdog highlighted Rollins in a scathing report to Congress, saying the ex-U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts was an example of significant misconduct.
Right off the top in his introduction, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz calls out Rollins’ resignation for an attempt to “influence” the Suffolk DA’s race, “among other things,” as a focus of his policing.
The DOJ Inspector General was alluding to the race for Suffolk District Attorney, where Rollins backed losing candidate Ricardo Arroyo over incumbent DA Kevin Hayden. Arroyo also lost in his re-election bid for Boston City Council.