A long time ago on August 8, 2012, I spotted how J.W. Carney was going to play the immunity issue when he first mentioned it but refused to disclose who gave the immunity. Initially it was up in the air although we knew it could not have been an FBI agent because the Court of…
Author: mtc9393
Whitey Bulger’s Immunity Claim: An Analysis Of The Prosecutor’s Response To Whether He Has Immunity
As things develop in the case I have to interrupt my plans. Yesterday I said I would continue with the reevaluation today but if you’ve read the local morning papers you’ll see the government has filed it position on Whitey’s claim he has immunity. It has been filed with Judge Stearns. I assume he will…
Prosecutorial Discretion – It’s The Hard Decisions That Tell Us Whether A Prosecutor Is Made Of Sterner Stuff
I’ve written about prosecutor’s and prosecutorial discretion off an on in a general way both here and here. I’ve been more specific about it when I discussed the cases of Aaron Swartz and the Caswell Motel case. I’ve noted how I though it was used wrongly in the indictment of the probation officers and in the…
§30: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: Training John Connolly
People who have written books suggest the reason Rico and Condon picked Connolly to arrest Salemme and to bring him back to the Boston FBI office was because of the South Boston connection, especially the Old Harbor Village link that Connolly had with Whitey. That doesn’t work. As far as the FBI is concerned in…
§29: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: A False View On Connolly’s Return To Boston
Even though I believe it was Speaker McCormack who brought Connolly back to Boston so he could be near his family, I understand there is another position on this. I’m aware others have suggested that Connolly’s arrest of Frankie Salemme was part of a scheme put together by the Rico/Condon team to bring Connolly back…
§28: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: John Connolly’s FBI Journey
I would suggest the most logical way to examine the question of how Whitey learned Stevie Flemmi was an FBI informant is to look at it from the point of view of the FBI and more particularly the Rico/Condon team who were handling Stevie and John Connolly, who would become his handler. First a few…