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The second part of the March 2016 interview the Massachusetts Attorney General's office conducted with freshly released rigged chemist, Annie Dookhan.

Attorneys at Law Ilyas and Chris, and investigative journalist Jamie speculate that Dookhan agreed to the interview as part of her plea agreement which saw her serve under two and a half years on a three-to-five-year sentence.

Dookhan makes a false assertion that could jeopardize her future freedom if enough media attention is paid to this interview. Sad that our laws only matter when the media points out someone may have broken them because the state has known about Dookhan lying since 2016 and was even given evidence of it by Attorney Chris Post and still nothing from the state, they simply said "Thanks".

Please note, this episode was renamed. Formerly, it was titled 'Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview Part 2'

Thank you for listening to RIGGED: Massachusetts' William A Hinton State Laboratory Institute Scandal - Rigged Lab Chemist, Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview Part 2 of 2.

This episode is part of a series of 10 episodes uncovering the scandal of a rigged chemist - Annie Dookhan and the Massachusetts' William A Hinton, MD State Laboratory Institute Scandal in Jamaica Plain, Boston in the United States. Did you listen to Part 1 of 2 already? We invite you to listen to more episodes in this series.

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About a month after Annie Dookhan was released from jail, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office brought her in to interview her about lab operations. During the course of the interview, Dookhan falsely represented that she did not manufacture drug standards. Chris, Jamie and Ilyas found clearly evidence of the contrary.

If Dookhan was poor and not part of a massive government cover-up, she would have been charged with lying to prosecutors and possibly back in jail. As it is she was never charged and was allowed to resume her life.

You aren't going to want to miss part 1 of this bombshell exclusive episode of RIGGEDLabs Podcast!

Please note, this episode was renamed. Formerly, it was titled 'Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview Part 1'

Thank you for listening to RIGGED: Massachusetts' William A Hinton State Laboratory Institute Scandal - Rigged Lab Chemist, Annie Dookhan Bombshell Interview Part 1 of 2.

We invite you to listen to Part 2 of 2.

This episode is part of a series of 10 episodes uncovering the scandal of a rigged chemist - Annie Dookhan and the Massachusetts' William A Hinton State Laboratory Institute Scandal.

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Jim Hanchett is asked why the chemists who worked in his lab misclassified drugs on the stand. When confronted with evidence that Sonja Farak and Annie Dookhan conspired to do just that, Hanchett blurts out "We don't just make stuff up!". Unfortunately for many in Massachusetts, his lab was doing just that.

Continuation of the Hanchett Interview where he confesses to more incompetence and general bad lab practices.

There are trainwrecks, there are shitshows and then there is the Amherst Drug Testing Lab supervised by Jim Hanchett. Under Hanchett's "supervision", Sonja Farak was allowed to freely steal from police submitted evidence for nearly a decade and why not. Hanchett himself admitted that the lab was too cheap to buy real drug testing standards so he would just pinch from the used samples to make the standards by which the lab tested evidence against since, as Hanchett puts it, before he started at the lab in the late 1970's. Hanchett also indicates the State Police and Hinton Labs were doing the exact same thing for decades. This bogus testing was the basis of every drug conviction in this state for nearly forty years. This interview needs to be heard to be believed. Enjoy part 1!

After years of litigation, the Massachusetts ACLU prevailed in court and obtained several internal OIG emails which depict conversations the MA OIG had regarding their Hinton Lab investigation back in 2013. The emails directly contradict the OIG's own conclusion that Annie Dookhan was the lone bad actor at the Hinton Lab. Corruption at the highest level of the lab and in the state government are examined and official conclusions are refuted in this explosive episode of the Rigged Podcast.

Part 2 of the epic interview the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office had with former Amherst Chemist Sharon Salem in November of 2015. This interview was part of the AG's investigation into the practices at the drug lab and came almost two years after the Massachusetts Inspector General told the public that Annie Dookhan was the sole bad actor in a Drug Lab scandal that resulted in the dismissal of tens of thousands of criminal cases.

Salem discusses how she and her coworkers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst lab created drug standards, received evidence from the police and sampled evidence. The testing and scientific processing of the evidence given to this lab resulted in the conviction of tens of thousands of criminal defendants in Massachusetts.

Ilyas, Chris and Jamie review the interview and add their commentary.

Episode 6 of the Rigged Podcast has Jamie, Ilyas and Chris Post again listening to previously unknown interview with UMass Amherst chemist Sharon Salem. According to official FOIA responses from the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, this interview does not exist. Yet somehow, the Rigged Podcast was able to obtain this damning look into the "scientific" practices of the now shuttered drug testing lab from Salem, a chemist and evidence officer for the lab for nearly 30 years.

Back in 2015 the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office conducted a secret investigation into the the policies and processes of the UMass Amherst Drug Lab. This exclusive interview with Sharon Salem has never been heard by the public before and resulted in at least one long time Department of Public Health employee being forced into "retirement". This interview could have far reaching implications for all the testing performed at this, and other, drug testing labs in the state.

Exclusive audio from an interview the AG's office did with Amherst Chemist Rebecka Pontes.