Reuters obtained the records and first reported the news that Rollins had agreed to the reprimand.
The board has yet to approve the resolution and its website shows that Rollins has pending “disciplinary proceedings” before the board.
Rollins’ lawyer, Jeffrey Robbins, said that although the parties have agreed on the “appropriate resolution and closure” it is “perplexing” that “the Board has not yet approved the resolution handpicked by its own professionals, who are intimately familiar with the actual facts of this matter.“
“It is Ms. Rollins’ sincere hope that the Board will adopt the recommendations of its own highly skilled professionals rather than disregard them,” Robbins said in an emailed statement to the Globe Monday night.
When Rollins resigned as the leading federal prosecutor in Massachusetts in May 2023, she was facing discipline for what the Department of Justice called a multitude of “blatant” and “egregious” ethics violations.
Rollins had been sworn into the post just 16 months earlier, in January 2022. She was the first Black woman to hold the office.
Central to Rollins’s downfall was her attendance at a fund-raiser hosted by the Democratic National Committee. Then-first lady Jill Biden spoke at the event.
Rollins arrived at the fund-raiser, held at an Andover home, in a government-issued car, driven by a government employee.
The DOJ’s blistering reports also detailed how Rollins deeply involved herself in the race between Kevin Hayden, acting district attorney, and City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, to succeed her as Suffolk DA.
She advised and coordinated with Arroyo who pledged to continue her policies, and attempted to disseminate damaging information about Hayden, the reports said.
After Hayden won the election, Rollins used her position as US attorney to leak a nonpublic DOJ document to the Boston Herald and then lied about it under oath until she was confronted with her own text messages, the justice department found.
The leaked document was a recusal memorandum saying that Rollins would remove her office from any potential DOJ investigations into Hayden’s handling of a police misconduct case that began under Rollins’s tenure as DA and the understaffing of a special unit that handled such cases.
The Board of Bar Overseers documents find that Rollins disclosed confidential information and then lied about it to her DOJ colleagues.
Rollins told the board she “erroneously thought she had discretion to disclose the matter without prior authorization pursuant to DOJ Manual,” documents show.
Rollins considered the citizens of the state to be her clients and “felt that the public needed reassurance that the DOJ was at least contemplating investigating the matter,” the board’s documents said.
Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow her @talanez.
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