Attorney General’s Brother Found Guilty Of Posing As Rideshare Driver To Assault Women

A assemblage Thursday convicted nan relative of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell of sexually assaulting women while he posed arsenic a rideshare driver.

Jurors recovered Alvin Campbell, 45, blameworthy of 21 retired of 22 counts for activity assaults from 2017 to 2019, nan Suffolk County territory attorney's agency said. The assemblage was deadlocked connected 1 of nan rape charges.

“We will find our action, if any, astatine a early day connected that charge,” nan territory attorney's agency said successful a statement.

Campbell faces up to life successful situation for aggravated rape erstwhile he's sentenced connected June 29.

Campbell posed arsenic a rideshare driver to target women extracurricular bars aliases different locations, prosecutors said.

His younger sister became nan first female of colour to triumph statewide agency successful Massachusetts erstwhile she was sworn successful arsenic lawyer wide successful 2023. A spokesperson for nan lawyer general's agency didn't instantly return an email from The Associated Press precocious Thursday seeking remark connected nan verdict.

Andrea Campbell has spoken antecedently astir her family's troubled history successful nan criminal justness system, including her brother's rape charges.

“One point I do often is stock my communicative because I deliberation location are truthful galore who transportation their communicative pinch a consciousness of shame and don’t want to talk astir it, including nan criminal aspects of my family,” she said successful a erstwhile question and reply pinch nan AP. “But location is nary shame successful 1 sharing their story. There is powerfulness successful it.”

The lawyer wide is nan main lawyer and rule enforcement serviceman successful nan state.

After nan verdict, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden told reporters he hadn't spoken pinch nan lawyer general.

Alvin Campbell “deceivingly and calculatedly” preyed upon women successful their astir susceptible moments, Hayden said. “I can't ideate what that scary must person been for illustration for them.” Campbell's defense lawyer didn't instantly respond to a telephone connection and email from nan AP.

Hayden expressed gratitude to nan women who testified: “We’re happy that we were capable to unafraid justness and accountability for them and truthful we convey them.”