Article Asks: Has U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Overreached?

Here's the provocative headline from the Huffington Post yesterday, criticizing the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz: "This Federal Prosecutor Is Building A Career Indicting The Good Guys."

The article contends that Ortiz's latest case against two Boston City Hall employees for allegedly employing union strong-arm tactics is the latest in a long string of cases where she is "bringing the full force of the law down on semi-high-profile people for minor or legally ambiguous crimes."

It lays out a number of cases since 2009, when Ortiz took the helm for the District of Massachusetts, including the high-profile case against Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in 2013.

David Boeri, WBUR senior reporter

Nancy Gertner, former federal judge, and current senior lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and WBUR legal analyst