As I mentioned in a previous post, AG Thomas Reilly worked to ensure that a young woman’s medical records were not released publicly. Originally, I thought this was Reilly taking a stand for privacy rights. In reading the article over again and looking at the comments to the post in question, it becomes clearer that privacy rights are not the only issue at question in this situation.
The young woman in question is the daughter of a friend and campaign contributor of Reilly’s and it is suspected that she had been drinking at the time of her death in an auto accident on Oct. 13, 2005, following a baseball playoff game. According to Northborough Police Chief Mark Leahy, he “was certainly surprised by the involvement of the AG’s office.” Further, “They don’t ordinarily get involved in these matters.”
Potentially as a result of Reilly’s intervention, “the Northborough police released a statement saying, ‘The investigation by this agency into the movements of the vehicle’s occupants in the hours preceding the accident is therefore closed.'” I certainly hope that Reilly intervened for the reasons I outlined in my first post, and I think that he would have been right in doing so. These other facts, however, certainly raise a less admirable motive as well.
Did AG meddle in probe of fatal crash
The fact still remains that Reilly was intervening, as the article notes, “to prevent their release to the media, not police.”
Sorry for commenting on my own post.
…this evening. I assume the morning RKO talk folks were all over it also. And of course their account of the events take a grain of truth and roll it into one big fat lie…
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Neal Oxman is Rielly’s political consultant…let’s see if Neal is worht the big bucks he gets paid and naviagates Rielly out of this…
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So far the snowball is growing.