BOSTON — A jury convicted Thursday of the brother Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell He sexually assaulted women while pretending to be a taxi driver.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said jurors found Alvin Campbell, 45, guilty of 21 of 22 counts related to sexual assaults from 2017 to 2019. The jury deadlocked on one of the rape charges.
“We will determine what action, if any, we will take in the future on this charge,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement.
Campbell faces life in prison on the aggravated rape charge when he is sentenced on June 29.
Prosecutors said Campbell posed as a taxi driver to target women outside bars or other places.
His younger sister became the first woman of color to win statewide office in Massachusetts when she was three years old He was sworn in as Attorney General in 2023. A spokesman for the district attorney’s office did not immediately return an email from The Associated Press late Thursday seeking comment on the ruling.
Andrea Campbell has previously spoken about her family’s troubled history in the criminal justice system, including her brother’s rape accusations.
“One thing I do frequently is share my story because I think there are a lot of people who carry their story with shame and don’t want to talk about it, including the criminal aspects of my family,” she said in a previous interview with the Associated Press. “But there is no shame in someone sharing their story. There is power in that.”
The Attorney General is the state’s chief attorney and law enforcement officer.
After the ruling, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden told reporters that he had not spoken with the prosecutor.
Hayden said Alvin Campbell preyed on women “deceptively and calculatedly” in their most vulnerable moments. “I can’t imagine how terrifying this must have been for them.”
Campbell’s defense attorney did not immediately respond to a phone message and email from the AP.
Hayden expressed her gratitude to the women who testified: “We are happy that we were able to secure justice and accountability for them and so we thank them.”