Massachusetts AG's office spent nearly $300K on state credit cards last fiscal year
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell speaks to the media in February 2025 before a hearing in federal court regarding birthright citizenship. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
A trip to France was among the estimated $288,000 in expenses charged to state credit cards last fiscal year by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office, according to a tally of expenses by the Boston Herald.
The largest expense incurred by Campbell was more than $13,000 for attending a conference and related events in France hosted by the National Association of Attorneys General and the Attorney General Alliance, the article reports. Campbell traveled with a staff member and a state trooper.
About half of the U.S. state attorneys general made the trip to France, which was mostly funded by companies, according to an August 2024 story by the Associated Press.
The credit card was also used to cover more than $10,000 for overflow space at the Fairfield Inn during an annual National Cyber Crime Conference in Boston, the article reports.
Campbell and a state trooper also traveled to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands in June to attend the annual meeting of the Attorney General Alliance. That trip included just one expense on Campbell’s credit card for fiscal year 2025—a $49 airport meal.
The Boston Herald is seeking the total expenses for the trips to France and St. Thomas.
The story noted that Campbell has not enforced an audit of the state legislature that was approved by voters.
“The attorney general should put as much effort into enforcing the audit of the legislature … as she does booking out-of-state trips,” Paul Diego Craney, spokesman for the nonprofit Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, told the Boston Herald.
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