"When 76 veterans died last spring of COVID-19
in the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, the need to get to the bottom of what happened
and why, and who was to blame, could hardly have been more clear. So when
Governor Charlie Baker tapped a private attorney to conduct an independent
investigation, it seemed like the moment for one of those no-stone-unturned
independent probes that have made history here," wrote the Globe's Andrea Estes and Rebecca Ostriker.
"But a Boston Globe Spotlight Team review of Baker’s arrangement with
former prosecutor Mark Pearlstein — including communications between the
governor’s office and Pearlstein — raises troubling new questions about whether
the investigation was truly independent. The legal contract between the Office
of the Governor and Pearlstein’s law firm created an explicit attorney-client
relationship, which could be used to keep their communications and other
materials private and suggested Pearlstein was working for Baker, not the
public."
- Here are five top takeaways from the Spotlight Team’s reporting on the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home.
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