Author: mtc9393

(I began this story two Sundays ago here and last Sunday here. I’ll continue posting this on Sundays until I finish it.) Last week we saw that Jeremiah O’Sullivan learned the Massachusetts state police under Sgt Bobby Long had a six month jump on him and the FBI in the pursuit of the Mafia and…

I can’t say it was a good week for the prosecutors. Those are the exact same words I used to start off last week’s review. That’s not to say the prosecutors are bad or anything like that. It is the opposite. They’re very good. It’s just maybe it’s me and I don’t understand their strategy. I’ve…

We’ve been wondering the genesis of the Boston Globe’s antagonism, to use an easy word, against Billy Bulger.  I was reading an article and came upon the term Curley Effect. Here’s what it said: “There is a concept in political science called the Curley Effect, named for James Michael Curley, who was the intermittent Irish-American…

A  lot of you who have struggled along with me in this blog know at some point early on as we developed a better insight into matters when I tried to throw of the fetters that bound me to a certain way of thinking and approach the story of Whitey’s life anew, going back to…

“And it’s Brennan on the moor, Brennan on the moor, Bold, brave and undaunted was young Brennan on the moor.” If Whitey isn’t humming that tune to himself by this time there’s not a drop of Irish blood in him. If that were ever shown, then his whole defense that proud Irishmen do not inform…

Last night after the jury left the judge and counsel remained behind discussing evidentiary issues for about a half hour or so.  The issue is whether Defense Attorney Carney can get some reports he received from the prosecutors into evidence so that he can show – which is a critical component of his case –…