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| Sheriff called target of US probe |
| By Boston Globe |
| Published: 05/12/2005 |
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Suffolk County (Mass.) Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral lied to a grand jury, according to two sources who have direct knowledge of the investigation. The investigation is focusing on Cabral's testimony about the firing of a longtime nurse at the Suffolk County House of Correction who was an informant for the FBI and cooperating with the agency in a probe into inmate abuse at the jail. The sources spoke on the condition they not be identified. Cabral testified before the grand jury that the nurse, Sheila J. Porter, was banned from working at the jail after she failed to file paperwork detailing an officer's alleged assault on an inmate, one of the sources said. But Porter testified before the grand jury that she was told she was being banned for talking to an ''outside agency" -- the FBI, the source said. Federal prosecutors are considering whether to bring perjury or obstruction of justice charges against Cabral, the source said. An obstruction of justice charge can be brought if there is evidence she thwarted a federal investigation by retaliating against an employee. Cabral declined to answer questions about the probe, but through a spokesman, released a statement saying, ''We have heard directly from the US attorney's office that no indictment is being pursued." |
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