Campbell Will Give DiZoglio Green Light to Sue Legislature Over Audit Records

BY COLIN A. YOUNG

Attorney General Andrea Campbell will tell Auditor Diana DiZoglio that she can go ahead and secure outside counsel to represent her in a lawsuit against the Legislature, she said Tuesday. 

The Supreme Judicial Court last week gave Campbell 30 days to decide whether or not she would represent DiZoglio in the auditor’s pursuit of claims against the Legislature for alleged failure to respond to four specific requests outlined in a January 2025 memo. Those requests were part of an audit that DiZoglio attempted to conduct in keeping with a 2024 voter law that was approved by 72% of voters.

Campbell, during an appearance on GBH Radio on Tuesday, said she will shortly send DiZoglio her response, “allowing her to proceed to appoint an attorney to then go into court with respect to those four things, and this will move forward.”

The four things specifically mentioned in the January 2025 memo and in last week’s court hearing were the official budgets for each chamber of the Legislature for fiscal years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; copies of official audits of each chamber for the same fiscal years; a listing of all transactions related to each chamber’s balance forward line item for those fiscal years; and a list of all monetary settlement agreements entered into by each chamber with any current or former employees or elected members during the same timeframe.

Campbell also suggested that her office will no longer represent the Legislature, as it has during an attempt to have the courts toss DiZoglio’s lawsuit, moving forward.

Campbell’s office told the News Service the letter had not been finalized and could not be shared.