Author: mtc9393

The district attorney’s office where I worked was the first one in the Commonwealth to create a specialized unit dealing with sexual crimes against women. It was staffed by smart, aggressive, sympathetic women who became skilled in handling these type cases. Even when they had too many and handed them off to other prosecutors not…

Yesterday I wrote about the Lad as being a stand-up guy. He lived by a code almost none of his friends did by never cooperating with law enforcement or disclosing the illegal acts of others to benefit himself. When he heard others were ratting people out or writing books he shrugged. Not for him to…

Test your memories. What does the name Whittiker Chambers mean to you? Perhaps it will mean more if I add the name Alger Hiss. For those unaware of those, or even those whose recollection may be a little fuzzy, Chambers was an underground Communist operative in the United States in the 1930s who defected from…

I’m thinking of all the guys who literally got away with murder thanks to the federal prosecutors obsession with the Bulgers. One came to mind recently. I’ll call him the Lad. I inquired about him by contacting a person who I consider the top media maven on the subject of Whitey. I asked him for…

Anyone who has read my book, Don’t Embarrass The Family, or some of my posts over the past year will know that I have criticized the FBI for some of the things that it continually does. In my book I made recommendations for changes in FBI procedures because I suggested the FBI had become an ossified outfit…

Obtuse in the sense of slow witted probably best describes Boston media when it comes to the FBI. The Boston Globe and Boston Herald and even WBUR reported, as if it is news that with regard to the paintings taken from the Gardner Museum 24 years ago the FBI “has confirmed sightings of the missing artwork from…