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Obtuse in the sense of slow witted probably best describes Boston media when it comes to the FBI. The Boston Globe and Boston Herald and even WBUR reported, as if it is news that with regard to the paintings taken from the Gardner Museum 24 years ago the FBI “has confirmed sightings of the missing artwork from…

Justice Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court just halted the execution of Russell Bucklew, 46, a pathetic looking chap shown on the left. Russell is set to fry for his actions 18 years ago when he 28 years old. He’s not a nice guy and he complains that if his execution is botched up he might…

Yesterday I wrote about former FBI Agent John Connolly. I did that because while working on my book Boston Bamboozled I keep thinking about him still in jail since 2002 when all the murderers who cooperated with the federal government, even some of their friends who they implicated in the murders, are walking the street….

The great tragedy in all the many real and imagined stories about James J. Bulger, “Whitey,”  the man who the media and book writers tell us terrorized the City of Boston for decades even though few in the city knew of his existence until he had fled from the city, a profound paradox proposed by…

The twitter of @davidfrankmlw is quite busy. He’s dealing with the friends of Tsarnaev who are charged as accessories, also covering the Hernandez matters and then the O’Brien probation case. The latter case is the one I am interested in. If you want to find out what’s going on in those cases, you can’t go…

Fred Wyshak the federal prosecutor in Boston who prosecuted Whitey Bulger is about to begin the trial next Monday of the former commissioner of the Massachusetts Probation Department, John J. O’Brien, and two of his associates. It will be held before veteran Judge William Young in the Boston federal court on the waterfront. Wyshak’s office…