Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal S3E88.0 July Evidentiary Hearings Recap with Jamie | Crime Labs Scandal Updates - RIGGEDLabs Podcast
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13th Jul 2026

S3E88.0 July Evidentiary Hearings Recap with Jamie | Crime Labs Scandal Updates

July 2026. - Evidentiary hearing is ongoing this week in the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts in connection to the decade long Massachusetts rigged crime labs scandals as reported in early 2010s.

In this episode, Jamie brings a recap of today’s session.

RIGGEDLabs is seeking your support in favor of several thousands victims and survivors of rigged forensics laboratories/corruption within the criminal justice system.

In new episodes this week, Jamie reports from the courthouse.

For six years, RIGGEDLabs Awareness Podcast stands strong with every patriot since 2020 to help building protective and defensive awareness against enemies or detractors who are dishonestly manipulating evidence in rigged forensic laboratories to deceive our justice system to take away people's freedom in this nation.

The Massachusetts crime lab scandals involved two rogue chemists, Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak, whose misconduct compromised over 60,000 drug convictions in the early years of the 2010s. Their actions at state crime laboratories led to the largest mass dismissal of wrongful convictions in U.S. history, prompting the dismissal of over 21,000 cases connected to Dookhan and over 24,000 tainted convictions tied to Farak.

Yet, to this day, several thousands of their victims remain wrongfully convicted and lost their freedom. We stand with their families. Their cases must be overturned.

Also, check out our previous episode in "Punching Up with Jamie" for a bombshell revelation about our school system and our children.

S3E88.0 July Evidentiary Hearings Recap with Jamie | Crime Labs Scandal Updates

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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.