Former state Sen. Dean Tran was indicted Friday by a Suffolk County grand jury and charged with two counts of violating state ethics laws stemming from a Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ethics' 2020 finding that he inappropriately used his Senate staff to conduct campaign activities.
Former state Sen. Dean Tran was indicted Friday by a Suffolk County grand jury and charged with two counts of violating state ethics laws, Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced.from an elderly constituent and then misled the investigation into the incident, stem from the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ethics'that Tran inappropriately used his Senate staff to conduct campaign activities.
Massachusetts ethics laws prohibit state, county and municipal public employees from using public resources in connection with political campaigns or other private political activity, including engaging in political activity on public work time, Campbell's office said. Tran is also a subject in a federal investigation, the Boston Globe reported in June after the FBI raided his home.
Tran narrowly lost his 2020 reelection bid to Sen. John Cronin, a Democrat. Last year, he ran for Congress against U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan and garnered more than 88,500 votes in his loss.to resolve allegations that the party received more than $137,000 in impermissible contributions from Sen. Ryan Fattman's campaign to be used to benefit his wife, Stephanie Fattman, and her 2020 Worcester County Register of Probate reelection campaign.
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