Author: mtc9393

Patrick Nee of South Boston seemed to have slipped through the troubles, not the Troubles in Ireland, but those in South Boston surrounding Whitey Bulger relatively unscathed. Going through the life of Whitey Bulger he is there and not there – he is his enemy, his partner, his enemy. The final episode that we see…

The case I am about to write about is from the Massachusetts Supreme Court (SJC) Commonwealth v. Quinton K. Williams.  This SJC case reminded me of the time when I was a young lawyer trying cases in Suffolk Superior Court. (I’ve told this before.) At that time jurors used to be called to serve for a…

There were 15 other gangland slayings in 1964 aside from  that of ex-MDC police officer Russell Nicholson . One, the murder of Ronald Dermody, may be linked to the McLaughlin & McLeod feud. What appears to be farfetched street scuttlebutt has the ring of truth.  The street talk according to John Martorano is that Dermody…

When I was serving in uniform I had some friends who were Southern Baptists. They told  me they had problems with the Catholic Church. Since I was one of the few Catholics they had become friendly with they used to tell me that the Church was the anti-Christ that was intended to bring the Devil…

I always thought it ironic that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was criticized for its Top Echelon Informant (TEI) program by the people who did exactly the same thing. I believe the criticism of the TEI gang is justified. It is really absurd think that the FBI would establish such a program whose purpose…

 I recall being in Chicago with a classmate, Brian Murphy, who had graduated from law school with me. He had been living there at the time. I was attending a Teamsters’ Convention since my law firm represented a local Teamster Union. Sitting in his house I was talking away saying Boston this and Boston that….