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I‘ve written about people out of favor and how the Boston Globe often identifies them and sets it columnists and writers to go after one of these POOFs. Not satisfied with dragging people through the mud unfairly it has now come up with an old world remedy, shunning. It is urging that we shun a…

On  May 22, 2013 Ibragim Todshev was involved in a homicide. He was the victim. He was in a room with at least six law enforcement officers. The homicide occurred in Florida. The State of Florida refuses to investigate it. Two of the officers were Massachusetts State Police officers. The Massachusetts State Police refuse to…

(Continued from last Sunday) The FBI were going up on the telephone of a low-level bookie Francis McIntyre not because they were investigating him but because they were hell-bent on getting Massachusetts State Trooper John Naimovich who had been working organized crime for most of his 23 year career. Here’s where the plot thickens. No…

I can’t say it was a good week for the prosecutors. (I know I said that before.) Last week I wrote the case was a lock at least as far as the convicting Whitey. I told how the prosecutor had the machine guns, the obliterated serial numbers, the defense counsel’s opening saying Whitey was a…

I can’t say it was a good week for the prosecutors. Not that it could have been when you are relying on a guy who murdered — I wish defense counsel had not said to Martorano the word “killed” rather than “murdered” — to make the case for the first group of murders and the…

I told you how Frank Capizzi a few questions into his cross-examination turned to the judge in response to a Carney question asking him if he was involved in any illegal activities back in the ’70s and said he wanted to claim his rights. This resulted in a side bar (bench conference) among the judge…