Gangster Thursday is a good day to talk about Howard Carr’s big buddy John Martorano. Martorano is walking the street after having murdered twenty persons. People who kill that many people usually are called serial murderers and locked up for life. In Texas and Florida people are executed for killing one or two people….
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How The FBI Framed An Innocent Massachusetts State Trooper
My telling of the story of Trooper John Naimovich must be like a serialization. To understand it you have to know what I’ve written on past Wednesdays. Serialization is as old as Sheherazade’s stories in One Thousand and One Nights. It gained immense popularity in the 19th Century when most good authors like Dickens produced…
Whitey Bulger’s Friends — The FBI – Fidelity Before Integrity
In 1988 – I place the time then because it was in that year that the Boston Globe came out with the Spotlight Team article on the Bulger brothers – I received a call from Kevin Cullen a Globe columnist. I’d talked to Kevin on occasion over the years. This time he wanted to know…
A Criminal & An Irishman — Patrick Nee — Whitey Bulger’s Partner
This is a tale written in 2006 by a man born in Galway in 1943 who arrived in Southie when he was eight years old. He wasn’t the toughest guy in the neighborhood like all the other gangsters who wrote books about Southie like Eddie MacKenzie’s, Street Soldier, or John Shea’s Rat Bastards or Kevin Weeks’s Brutal. Nee suggests…
General Thoughts on Whitey Bulger — The Road Less Traveled
Last week on Catch All Saturday I wrote about Billy Bulger. I said it is my intent to examine each allegation against him that suggests he is corrupt. This is a process that will take some time. I am working on it. I’ll set them out as a group and then discuss each one…
Why FBI Agent John Connolly Languishes in Prison — Who Is Pulling the Strings
When Connolly was tried in Boston we read in the newspapers continuing coverage of the events at his trial. We heard how his Supervisor Morris testified as to the bribes he received, how Martorano told of giving him a ring, how Salemme told of meeting with him, and how Weeks told of Whitey’s relationship with…