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At 9:30 promptly J. W. Carney rose to present his argument that Judge Richard  Stearns should not be sitting on Whitey Bulger’s case. He was facing a panel of the court that showed this matter is being given serious consideration. Twice in my career I appeared before that court. Once when representing a Teamsters Local…

I’ll always wonder if the prosecutors have second guessed their deal with Murderman Martorano. He held them up to ridicule when he openly admitted that he took them to the cleaners getting so little time for all the murders he confessed to having committed. What were his words: “I had good lawyers. I made a…

Bear in mind that much of the information we are dealing with relative to Whitey during his Early Years and Learning Years is coming from old men who are looking back over 30 years trying to recollect things. These old men have led hard lives and kept no contemporaneous notes from which they can recreate…

I ended yesterday saying: “As 1973 dawned, Whitey was not a player to be reckoned with.”   I told how he was nothing more than the big fish in a home aquarium. Doing research yesterday I had to check something out in Murderman’s book (Hitman by Howie Carr). I’ve read it before but somehow missed…

Yesterday I set out how I saw the meeting between Howie  and Whitey coming about.  It takes place in late Fall 1972. The two parties to the meeting at Chandler’s are the Killeens (Whitey) and the Mullens (Pat Nee and Tommy King). The mediator (Howie Winter).  Chandler’s being a Martorano place I’m sure Murderman was…

Before the 1972 gangster sit-down between Whitey and the Mullens gave South Boston a peace pact, Whitey knew unless he made a bold proposal it would be a very tenuous peace. He saw that standing opposite him were the Mullens with their huge advantage in age, desire, capable men and arms. Whitey knew he would…