Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal Special Memorial Day Tribute: We Remember & Honor Those Who Made The Sacrifice | RIGGEDLabs - RIGGEDLabs Podcast

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22nd May 2026

Special Memorial Day Tribute: We Remember & Honor Those Who Made The Sacrifice | RIGGEDLabs

On this Memorial Day weekend, we express our gratitude for the brave men and women who served our nation with integrity and sacrificed for our freedom. It isn’t free. Our freedom isn’t free!

We remember and we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice!

This RIGGEDLabs episode pays tribute to more than 37,000 personnel from Massachusetts and several thousands more across the country who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces since the Revolutionary War.

In episode, we want to encourage you to continue the fight for our national freedom and liberty as well as for our individual freedom and liberty – for our friends and families.

Since 2020, RIGGEDLabs Podcast - “RIGGED:” is leading the fight for freedom and relief on behalf of those who are wrongfully convicted because of dishonest manipulations of evidence in forensic laboratories and evidence rooms in our criminal justice system.

“RIGGED:” is an independent true-crime investigative podcast produced by Rodenfolk Productions that delivers an exhaustive, document-driven look into systemic corruption, cover-ups, and massive frauds within forensic crime laboratories and police evidence rooms in Massachusetts and across the United States.

Our weekly episodes aim to help our listeners to building protective and defensive awareness to protect themselves and their families against rigged systems – specially these that are embedded deep inside our criminal justice system.

During this weekend-long Memorial Day holiday, our host invites the listeners to pause with him to reflect, remember, and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us; and to consider how we must continue to protect our individual freedom and liberty against wrongful accusations and convictions.

Thank you for listening to this special Memorial Day Tribute episode of RIGGEDLabs Awareness Podcast. Join the RIGGEDLabs Community of listeners, insiders, advocates, and defenders for more insights, discussions, and ways to contribute and support.

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Happy Memorial Day!

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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.