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Stephen Kurkjian has written a book on the heist. In an article he gave a run down on the matter.  His story seems to revolve, like the FBI’s, around the idea that some loosely connected Mafia types like Robert V. Gentile had something to do with it. The FBI was trying to squeeze Gentile in 2012 (22 years…

Today, March 18, 2015, marks the 25th anniversary of the art theft at the Gardner Museum in Boston. Even though the FBI told us a couple of years ago it knew who did it in truth it had no clue. Its futile guess probably had the real culprits rolling in laughter if they are still…

If you’ve been in the system long enough and tried murders and other major felony cases at the superior court level as I have you’d have been highly surprised, if not stunned, at reading about the government in the Hernandez case going to the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in the middle of a trial seeking to…

When the magic goes and the show changes it’s time to pull the show and the image connected with it. Reading about the breakfast on Sunday at the cavernous Massachusetts Convention Center where 460 people were to attend it appeared the fun is gone. One paper published “fun facts” about the breakfast that seemed to…

Do you remember Romney talking about the other 47. Looking back we’d have to say he was quite prescient. Who’d ever believe he was talking about 47 U.S. Senators who seemed to have abandoned the leadership of an American president in preference to that of a foreign ruler. You all know the background. The Israeli…

I got a call the other day from a friend who I’ll call Hecktor. He reminded me that he was about to climb out of his seventies and over the hill into his eighties. He said he planned to invite me to his eightieth birthday party but he had changed his mind. My name had…