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The  temptation is to continue writing about H. Paul Rico who was maliciously maligned by the media, prosecutors, investigators and courts if the highly informative book Rico is to be believed. I must avoid that and return to Whitey’s life from which I have strayed like a lamb in Ireland standing in peril of falling over…

H. Paul Rico. What do you know about him. Here’s what Black Mass  says: “Rico, a dashing senior agent who favored a Chesterfield topcoat and French cuffs, cultivated Flemmi because of his access to the New England Mafia.” “In 1967  Flemmi regularly told Rico about his illegal football lottery operation . . . [i]n 1968…

I wrote about this a while back when I asked how can we trust Judge Wolf’s findings when he’s trying to figure out what parts of a liar’s testimony to believe. I bring it up again because I am 75% through a book which I will write about tomorrow that reinforces what I have been…

Even a person who is unfamiliar with the court system can pretty much get this. Lawyers do their best to advocate a client’s position by setting forth the facts and law as they see it in a memorandum to a judge. When you pick up the judge’s decision and read this language on page 3…

(This was written as part of the series to show that Whitey could have immunity despite being an informant. Judge Stearns as we know has ruled out much of his defense which Stearns notes is really not a “defense” but a bar to prosecution. Stearns wrote: “an immunity agreement cannot as a matter of public…

To say Judge Richard Stearns had made up his mind on the issues of immunity before he received the memoranda of counsel would be an understatement. The parties submitted their memoranda on Friday and on Monday the decision was issued. That has to be some record for the federal court. The strange thing about all…