Freda Brasfield, a top finance director in Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office, has been charged with money laundering and conspiracy.
The “Democratic political activist and community organizer” was allegedly involved in a scheme to “get synthetic drugs into [the] state prison system,” according to Boston 25 TV journalist Bob Ward.
BREAKING: Top Boston Finance Director Freda Brasfield indicted, charged w/money laundering in alleged scheme to get synthetic drugs into state prison system. We were only media at Superior Court. My exclusive story @Boston 25, 5 PM. pic.twitter.com/6Isqidq60q
— Bob Ward Boston 25 (@Bward3) February 10, 2023
Brasfield is “one of multiple defendants charged in the case.”
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Freda Brasfield, the DEMOCRAT finance director in the Boston Mayors office put on leave. She is accused of money laundering and conspiracy in a prison drug scheme