Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal RIGGED: Massachusetts' Hinton State Lab Scandal - Part 1 of 2 of Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview - RIGGEDLabs Podcast

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13th Dec 2020

RIGGED: Massachusetts' Hinton State Lab Scandal - Part 1 of 2 of Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview

About a month after Annie Dookhan was released from jail, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office brought her in to interview her about lab operations. During the course of the interview, Dookhan falsely represented that she did not manufacture drug standards. Chris, Jamie and Ilyas found clearly evidence of the contrary.

If Dookhan was poor and not part of a massive government cover-up, she would have been charged with lying to prosecutors and possibly back in jail. As it is she was never charged and was allowed to resume her life.

You aren't going to want to miss part 1 of this bombshell exclusive episode of RIGGEDLabs Podcast!

Please note, this episode was renamed. Formerly, it was titled 'Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview Part 1'

Thank you for listening to RIGGED: Massachusetts' William A Hinton State Laboratory Institute Scandal - Rigged Lab Chemist, Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview Part 1 of 2.

We invite you to listen to Part 2 of 2.

This episode is part of a series of 10 episodes uncovering the scandal of a rigged chemist - Annie Dookhan and the Massachusetts' William A Hinton State Laboratory Institute Scandal.

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RIGGEDLabs Podcast
Hosts Jamie Folk and Ilyas Rona take a deep dive into the case responsible for the greatest violation of constitutional rights in Massachusetts history
On September 28, 2012, Massachusetts state chemist Annie Dookhan was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice and falsification of academic records. Approximately four months later another chemist, Sonja Farak, was arrested for using the drugs she was supposed to be testing and the Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal was born.

Hosts Jamie Folk and Ilyas Rona will be exploring the William H Hinton, UMass Amherst and State Police crime labs associated with this scandal and speak with the lawyers whose clients rights were violated as a result of the fraud committed by the chemists in these labs. Through their investigation of this case, Folk and Rona have found that the crimes of Dookhan and Farak were just the tip of the iceberg and that multiple chemists from three state labs lied on the stand, knowingly sent people to jail for possessing drugs that were not illegal and wanted to help law enforcement send as many people to jail as possible.

Jamie Folk is an independent journal who has been investigating this case since Dookhan's arrest was first reported. He has obtained over 70k documents from the state and has interviewed several lawyers, journalists, politicians, law enforcement officials and others connected with the case over the past 7 years.

Ilyas Rona is a lawyer who represented a man sent to prison by Dookhan and another Hinton lab chemist for possessing what turned out to be a cashew for two years. He has been investigating the Hinton, Amherst and State Police labs ever since.

Season 3 begins the exploration of cases outside of Massachusetts in the hope of shining a light on other drug lab scandals throughout the country.
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James Folk

Jamie Folk has been researching and reporting on the Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal since 2013. He has worked in the biotech industry around Boston for the past 17 years in the Quality Assurance space. He was a volunteer with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections from 2010 to 2015 running the Alternatives to Violence (AVP) workshops for inmates and met many victims of these labs in prison.