You know as well as I know that Draftsking is illegal. It is out-and-out pure gambling; it is no different from the services that have been offered by your local booking operations over the years. You place money down on a team, whether one you create in fantasy football or whether the one that has…
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Mayor Walsh’s Big Question: Do You Trust Your Lawyer?
The Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz mentioned in an indictment against Teamsters Local 25 that “a representative from the City of Boston” had called two restaurants to tell them that they would be picketed if they let “Top Chef” film in their locations. These businesses elected to cancel their deals in order to avoid the picketing….
Mayor Marty Walsh’s Lack of Sleep: The Fourth Shoe
There’s the story of Sid Gold who lived in the first floor of a three-decker who’d stay up to watch the 11:00 p.m nightly news and the first half hour or so of Johnny Carson. The husband and wife in the apartment above him worked the 3:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. shift and he would…
An Overview of Whitey’s Murders: The Roxbury Gang. (1 of 5 )
For months Jerome has been asking me to talk about each of the 19 murders that are attributed James “Whitey” Bulger. In his latest comment he asked in addition to that whether he had murdered other people than those he was alleged to have done in the indictment naming 19 people. To answer Jerome’s question…
The Teamster Indictments: Putting the Fear of God into Local 25
The four of the five Local Teamsters 25 defendants are described as members of Local 25; the fifth, defendant Mark Harrington is its secretary-treasurer who is usually the guy who runs the show. They are all charged with extortion under the Hobbs Act or conspiring to extort property of the Top Chef company namely: “money…
The Strange Federal Case of Boston Police Detective Brian Smiglieski
On September 8, 2015, the prosecutors in Fred Wyshak’s Public Corruption Unit brought a charge by means of an information against Boston Police Detective Brian Smigielski for actions that took place between late 2009 and April 2011, four years after the last incident. The charge was a conspiracy to defraud the United States as set…