Press Release  AG Healey Appoints New Leaders to Focus on Top Priorities

Boston — Attorney General Maura Healey announced today major staff appointments to focus attention on energy and environmental issues, health care, public protection and the enforcement of false claims.

"This office is committed to representing the Commonwealth as the people’s law firm and these appointments are critical to our ongoing efforts,” AG Healey said. “Our office is driven by the extensive knowledge and expertise of our attorneys and staff and I am confident that these members of the leadership team will bring continued success to the initiatives that we have set forth.”

Rebecca Tepper will head the Energy Division and serve as the Deputy Chief of the Energy and Environmental Bureau. Tepper will join the Attorney General’s Office from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where she served as General Counsel for the past four years. As General Counsel, Tepper led Department investigations into utilities’ storm response, service quality, grid modernization, time varying rates and interconnection standards. She also oversaw all Department rulemaking proceedings including utility rates and mergers. Tepper previously served as the Director of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board and was a partner at Rubin and Rudman in Boston. A graduate of Boston University School of Law and the University of Wisconsin, Tepper resides in Lexington.

Karen Tseng will head the Health Care Division. Tseng most recently served as the Director of Policy for Market Performance at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission where she led a team tasked with monitoring the impact of health care market changes on costs, quality, and access. She also has been a leader in developing policies that encourage a value-based health care system. Tseng successfully completed groundbreaking reviews of nationally reported health care transactions, including the proposed expansion of the state’s largest health care system. Tseng formerly served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Health Care Division of the Attorney General’s Office where she led investigatory, policy and law enforcement actions to protect consumers. Tseng is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She resides in Brookline.

Margret Cooke will serve as Deputy Bureau Chief of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau. Cooke has served in the Attorney General’s Office for more than 12 years, most recently as Chief of the Health Care Division, acting as an advocate for consumer-based health care reform and litigating matters involving pharmaceutical medical device companies. Throughout her tenure, Cooke has led the Attorney General’s Office in investigations and prosecutions involving health care fraud, and insurance and unemployment fraud. She has also represented the office in a number of civil rights and consumer protection issues including the negotiation with TJX involving one of the largest known data breaches in the Nation’s history at the time it was settled. A Boston resident, Cooke is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Mount Holyoke College.

Gillian Feiner will head the False Claims Division. Feiner has served in the Attorney General’s Office since 2008, most recently as the Managing Attorney in the Consumer Protection Division’s False Claims Unit where she oversaw the development and resolution of the Division’s false claims act investigations and cases. Over the course of her tenure at the Attorney General’s Office, Feiner has also investigated and litigated allegations of mortgage fraud, predatory lending and unfair and deceptive business practices securing multiple settlements, including a recent $7 million settlement with Standard and Poor’s over allegations it made false and misleading public statements concerning its CMBS ratings methodology and a settlement with Countrywide Financial Corporation that provided mortgage principal reductions of $18 million in Massachusetts. Feiner is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Columbia University. She resides in Belmont.

Daniel Licata will head the Environmental Crimes Strike Force Division. Licata has served with the Attorney General’s Office since 2012 as Senior Counsel and Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Crimes Strike Force Division. Licata has directed and litigated numerous criminal environmental investigations and prosecutions, worked in an advisory role with various state and federal government agencies, and was also appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for a joint federal-state criminal Clean Air Act investigation. Prior to serving in Massachusetts, Licata was an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. A resident of Somerville, Licata is a graduate of Vermont Law School and Saint Anselm College.

In February AG Healey announced major staff appointments and a restructuring of the Attorney General’s Office designed to focus attention on health care, energy and environmental issues, and to enforce the fair wage laws. The restructured bureaus are as follows:

Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau:
Antitrust Division
False Claims Division
Health Care Division
Medicaid Fraud Division
Not-for-Profits and Public Charities Division         

Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau
Civil Rights Division
Consumer Protection Division
Fair Labor Division
Insurance and Financial Services Division
Civil Investigations Division
HomeCorps

Energy and Environmental Bureau
Energy Division
Environmental Protection Division
Environmental Crimes Strike Force Division

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