I went to a book club the other night where my book Don’t Embarrassed The Family was the topic of discussion. That book considered the 2002 trial of FBI Agent John Connolly and the murders involved were mainly those of Martorano, Weeks and Salemme. All the people at the book group lived in and around Boston from…
Author: mtc9393
Keeping Track of Whitey: And Ibragim Todashev
On Wednesday I went to the inmate locator for the Bureau of Prisons to check on the status of Whitey. He was listed as “not in BOP custody.” Thursday I went back to it. It reported he was “in transit.” As we know Judge Casper ordered him into the custody of the BOP on November 14….
Paris-Underground: Making Mockery of Our Gangsters
Being laid up a couple of days due to one of the periodic rebellions by my left knee, I took the occasion to do some reading outside the confines of the matters relating to Boston Betrayed, as I call the saga surrounding Whitey Bulger. I read Sean O’Casey’s Knocking At The Door telling of his early…
Over, Over and Over They Talk Like We Are Fools:
Bastardizing the lyrics from an old Jerry Lee Lewis Llyod Price popular crossover song seemed appropriate title for this post; by the way Lewis who nearing his 80s is still going strong in Memphis having last year tied the knot for the seventh time. Price wrote and sang the song “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” always one of my youthful favorites. It was…
Howie Carr Proves Iago Wrong
One person who has done quite well from the explosion of small time hoodlum Whitey into the person who has “terrorized the City of Boston for decades” is talk show host and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr. I happened to have come into the vicinity of him over the summer. I can’t say he’s a…
Billy Bulger Thrust Into A Talk On Whitey
Last Wednesday down the Cape I spoke to a group at a library on the subject of Whitey Bulger. My talk lasted about 2 hours including the time for questioning. It went well, I was told. No one left before it ended and the questions were challenging and interesting. I used power point for the first…