Democrat Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell charged nearly $300,000 to her taxpayer-funded credit card in the past fiscal year, the Boston Herald reported Friday.
Between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025, Campbell’s office charged $288,146.26 to state-issued procurement cards — or P-cards — with purchases ranging from international travel to office parties, according to the Boston Herald. Records show transactions in 31 states, multiple foreign countries and even Disney World.
One of Campbell’s priciest trips came late last July, when she flew to France for a conference whose organizers described it as “solely focused on commemorating and paying tribute to the achievements and sacrifices of those who fought in Normandy,” nearly two months after the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on June 6. The trip cost taxpayers roughly $13,627, including nearly $9,000 for luxury chauffeur services and over $2,000 for flights, according to the Boston Herald.
The gathering was co-sponsored by the Attorney General Alliance, which is primarily funded by corporations that critics say use such events as opportunities for lobbyists to rub elbows with attorneys general. The event was attended by more than half of all U.S. state attorneys general, according to the Associated Press.
Other notable expenses cited by the Boston Herald included $1,220 for catering an annual holiday party at the office’s Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau last December, and $1,287 in October for a gathering to “recognize [Massachusetts State Police]’s successful high-profile takedown involving a high-profile drug trafficking investigation,” according to the Boston Herald.
The office also used the P-card to pay $10,286 for renting overflow space at a hotel for an annual cyber crimes conference in April, as well as a $548 hotel stay in Canada, the Boston Herald reported.
Campbell’s office did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Meanwhile, Campbell has come under fire in recent months for slow-walking the enforcement of an audit of the state Legislature, which 72% of the state’s voters approved last November.
“The taxpayers are footing the bill for the Attorney General’s expensive junkets,” Paul Diego Carney, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, told the Boston Herald. “She’s reaping the reward for not auditing the Legislature, which got her a larger budget to spend on highbrow trips. The Attorney General should put as much effort into enforcing the audit of the Legislature … as she does booking out-of-state trips.”
The Legislature approved a 12% budget increase for Campbell’s office for this fiscal year as it ramps up legal challenges against the Trump administration. In the first 100 days of the Trump administration, Campbell sued the administration over a dozen times, according to The Boston Globe.
In July, Campbell joined other blue-state attorneys general in suing the Trump administration over its sharing of Medicaid data with federal immigration officials and to reinstate funding that was revoked by the administration because it was allegedly being used to teach English to illegal immigrants.
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