Author: mtc9393

I worked in a district attorney’s office in Massachusetts. We did several electronic intercept investigations along with other investigations each year. Obviously secrecy is  essential during most of these.  The files relating to them were under the control of the lead attorney. Those who knew of them and had access to them were only people…

Dennis White.  He was appointed as Boston Police Commissioner by Mayor Martin Walsh on February 1, 2021. Walsh was preparing to become U.S. Secretary of Labor.  A problem arose because it became known that White allegedly was involved in domestic violence (dv) incidents some time in the 1990s twenty plus years earlier in his career…

I am sure that almost every person in the Greater Boston area is convinced from all the publicity they have seen and read that Whitey was this master criminal who murdered lots and lots of people and ran a huge criminal gang that vied with the Mafia in the Greater Boston area for dominance among …

I believe I first heard the quote “to the victor belongs the spoils” as something said in a Latin class. It always intrigued me because of the word “spoils.”  I associated the word spoils with things that were spoiled like spoiled milk or bratty spoiled children. I wondered why someone who won the battle would…

A man who died at age 80 and who worked most of his life up until the time he died as a longshoreman has been called one of America’s greatest philosophers. I have not read his work in many years but one thing that stood out in my mind was when he wrote that once…

Whenever the happenstances like those going on  in the Israeli – Palestinian situation at the present time occur one can only think of the movie Groundhog Day. If not  that then clearly one must think of the street definition of insanity which is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different…