Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins looking into third chemist at state drug lab
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’s office is examining the work of another chemist at a troubled state lab, raising the specter of additional misconduct that potentially widens what is already the largest crime lab scandal in US history.

In a filing submitted Monday in a pending Suffolk Superior Court drug case, Rollins’s office cast doubt on a 2014 state inspector general probe into the William A. Hinton state lab — a $6.2 million investigation that spanned 15 months — and questioned whether investigators dug deep enough.

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