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Get this. When it came time to serve the country in uniform when there was a war going on and almost 60,000 Americans would lose their lives, mostly the young ones who were conscripted, there were others who for their own reasons, some legitimate and others not so legitimate, did not serve. I never blamed…

You know as well as I know that Draftsking is illegal. It is out-and-out pure gambling; it is no different from the services that have been offered by your local booking operations over the years. You place money down on a team, whether one you create in fantasy football or whether the one that has…

There’s the story of Sid Gold who lived in the first floor of a three-decker who’d stay up to watch the 11:00 p.m nightly news and the first half hour or so of Johnny Carson. The husband and wife in the apartment above him worked the 3:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.  shift and he would…

The four of the five Local Teamsters 25 defendants are described as members of Local 25; the fifth, defendant Mark Harrington is its secretary-treasurer who is usually the guy who runs the show. They are all charged with extortion under the Hobbs Act or conspiring to extort property of the Top Chef company namely: “money…

On September 8, 2015, the prosecutors in Fred Wyshak’s Public Corruption Unit brought a charge by means of an information against Boston Police Detective Brian Smigielski for actions that took place between late 2009 and April 2011, four years after the last incident.  The charge was a conspiracy to defraud the United States as set…

Here’s part of the language in the indictment against the five teamsters who are charged with extortion by violation of the Hobbs Act. “Beginning in the spring of 2014, Company A, a non-union production company, began scouting locations to film . . . in Boston.” Why is the identity of the company hidden in the…