Author: mtc9393

The Patriot Ledger has a story about Daniel Rebello. I read it with interest and followed it up by going to other newspapers. What piqued my interest was the Ledger stating: “He’ll be back in Quincy court Nov. 21, and he told Coven that he’ll represent himself. “I have that right,” Rebello said.” When I read that…

It was five months ago today that at least five and upwards of eight to ten law enforcement officers crowded into the Orlando apartment of Ibragim Todashev who was scheduled to leave the country the next day to return to his homeland to question him about his relationship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and also about the…

Whitey will leave our fair state in less than a month spending Thanksgiving in a cell somewhere in America. I’m sure his meal will be reminiscent of one I had when I found myself and two other Marine officers stranded one Thanksgiving at the Iwakuni Air Station in Japan back in the ’60s with $1.65 among the…

I just finished reading Kenneth Ackerman’s book Young J. Edgar.  He gives a great insight into the person who became the director of the FBI. Hoover worked all his life in government positions in the Justice Department. He started as a young lawyer and came to newsworthy prominence during the period of time in America which…

Catching up on my reading I’ve also come across the new book by Lehr and O’Neill on Whitey. Much of it is a repeat if not retraction of some of the material that was set out in Black Mass. No longer do they maintain the position that there was the secret Wollaston Beach meeting where FBI…

At the library I picked up Howie Carr’s latest book Rifleman – The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. The first sentence in the introduction contradicts the title of the book it reads: “This is Stevie Flemmi’s own story dictated to the cops in the presence of his own lawyers.” If Stevie’s already told the…