Andrea Leigh Sampson, a former assistant district attorney in Anoka County, Minnesota, has been charged with 26 felony offences over allegations that she helped run prostitution from two properties she owned with her boyfriend. The case matters because it concerns a former prosecutor accused of offences connected to an alleged sex ring, potentially undermining public trust in the justice system.

Prosecutors allege that Sampson, 35, and Frank Davone Reeves, 57, promoted prostitution and received its proceeds; she faces 13 counts of each offence. Sampson was suspended in February and left her job in March, and has not yet entered a plea. The article says she had built a property portfolio valued at about $1.1 million while earning a reported $141,000 annual salary.