Posted on 11/24/2013 7:25:18 AM PST by Rusty0604
Annie Dookhan, who was a state chemist for Massachusetts, pleaded guilty Friday and will serve three to five years in prison. As many as 350 people have already been released from jail as a result of her wrongdoing.
The Boston Globe suggested that a humble background left Dookhan with a big need to prove herself. "A petite 4 feet 11 inches and a native of Trinidad, Dookhan appeared determined even as a young immigrant girl to outrun expectations and the perceived anonymity of her circumstances," the Globe wrote in February. "Notably intelligent, 'Little Annie' Dookhan was going to make sure that she would never be overlooked."
According to The New York Times, at least 50 of the defendants who have been released from jail because of the scandal, now known as "Dookhan defendants," have been rearrested. Two were murdered upon their release, and one man, Donta Hood, who had been serving time for cocaine possession, is back behind bars after allegedly shooting a man during a drug dispute.
Jamell Spurill, who had been jailed on drug charges, was recently released but soon rearrested, charged with possessing a stolen gun, the Times reports. According to Dookhan's prosecutors, he told police, “I just got out thanks to Annie Dookhan. I love that lady.”
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They never leave their Third World corruption behind when they come here and are immediately given a preference in hiring.
Yep. Send them back.
Only 20? Look at how many lives she messed up. I am not saying they were all perfect angels but everyone deserves a fair trail under the law and she denied them that.
Calculating unemployment stats at the Bureau of Labor.
“Or girl mechanics in the Army that could not carry their tool boxes, yet got preferential treatment just because they were girls.”
They got preferential treatment because they were mechanics not because they were girls. When you want your car/truck fixed you really need and I do mean “need” your mechanic!
In the Air Force, on the flight line, in Air Freight, we were very appreciative of a small person of any sex when we were working L-188s.
Whoever that was had the thankless job of squirming down the interior side of the plane to open the rear door.
I spent 8 years in the AF in the '70s, and the females I encountered seemed to be pulling their own weight in about the same percentage as the males.
In the Air Force, most places we were, there were hard surfaces, so most toolboxes had wheels on them.
Our real problems were caused by race and "city people". And those causing the race problem were also "city people".
Most of us from the suburbs and rural areas knew how to work.
Especially rural areas. Regardless of race, sex or background, the those who had done farm work or logging, etc., did fine.
A couple of the toughest, best female workers I encountered were dykes. They just had the "git 'er done" attitude. Most of the non-dyke ones had the same attitude, just more on a normal level.
Just Google her name.
This is a horrible article that provides zero information at all as to what she did.
There is only one sentence in the entire article that comes close to providing some information, but even that sentence is ambiguous and confusing. This one:
“She altered them, allegedly, to cover up the practice of “dry labbing” samples, which means testing only a fraction of a group of samples before marking them all positive for illegal drugs.”
When people aren’t challenged about their own fantasies, they begin believing them themselves. Elizabeth Warren is a good example. Obama actually believes a majority of actual living people voted for him.
There have been several news articles about her activity, some of them posted here on FR. This article is about her sentence.
Mr. Verner said Ms. Dookhan later acknowledged to state police that she sometimes would test only five out of 15 to 20 samples but would list them all as positive for the presence of a drug. She also allegedly acknowledged that sometimes, if a sample tested negative, she would take known cocaine from another sample and add it to the negative sample to make it test positive.
The only motive authorities have described is that Ms. Dookhan wanted to be seen as a good worker.
Mr. Dookhan was suspended from lab duties after she allegedly was caught forging a colleague’s initials in June 2011. She resigned in March during an internal investigation by the state Department of Public Health. Amid that investigation, state police took over the lab in July as part of a state budget directive.
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/20/mass-chemist-arraigned-drug-lab-scandal/#ixzz2laLzITRu
Thanks.
Don’t forget that most likely, dozens were probably released that should NOT have been because of her.
How many others like her are out there? We hear all the time about “innocent” people being released after so many years in hard labor, all based on recent DNA or some other tests, and never ever do we hear even a suggestion of those tests being inaccurate or purposely falsified, the assumption being that in that department everything is always perfecto.
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