'Sealed Indictment Highly Unusual'
Attorney General Martha Coakley said she moved to seal for months the indictments against the former head of the states Probation Department and the former chief of staff for the state treasurer to maintain the integrity of the investigation.
But several legal experts said the highly unusual, though not unprecedented, step could have been taken for one more unspoken reason: the existence of unindicted co-conspirators, a possibility that could bode ill for former treasurer Timothy Cahill.
The indictments against former Probation commissioner John J. OBrien and Scott Campbell, who served as chief of staff in the treasurers office and also worked on Cahills 2010 gubernatorial campaign, include the phrase that should send chills down the spines of some current and former state officials: [O]thers known and unknown to the Grand Jury.
Thats interesting, former Supreme Judicial Court justice John Greaney, now teaching at Suffolk University Law School, said about the sealing of the indictments. The usual case when you seal an indictment is you think the defendant is going to flee. That doesnt sound like the case here.