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When was the last time you picked up the newspaper or went on line and read about a gangster being gunned down in his car? Over the past fifteen or twenty years do you recall reading about any? I’m sure they must have happened but if anyone remembers them I’d like you to refresh my…

There were always some guys who were known for “sucker shots” or “sucker punches” in the neighborhood. One notorious sucker puncher where I hung around was a guy a little older than us called Yakka. He was sort of a poor soul.  Always looking and hoping for someone to buy him a drink. He saw me…

Whitey Bulger went to his death suggesting he was not an informant. Irish people he suggested hated informants; but it was the Irish people who produced a multitude of informants that enabled the British to suppress one plot after another. So many, that a fictitious one, Gypo Nolan, is almost as well-known as the real…

Patrick Nee of South Boston seemed to have slipped through the troubles, not the Troubles in Ireland, but those in South Boston surrounding Whitey Bulger relatively unscathed. Going through the life of Whitey Bulger he is there and not there – he is his enemy, his partner, his enemy. The final episode that we see…

The case I am about to write about is from the Massachusetts Supreme Court (SJC) Commonwealth v. Quinton K. Williams.  This SJC case reminded me of the time when I was a young lawyer trying cases in Suffolk Superior Court. (I’ve told this before.) At that time jurors used to be called to serve for a…

There were 15 other gangland slayings in 1964 aside from  that of ex-MDC police officer Russell Nicholson . One, the murder of Ronald Dermody, may be linked to the McLaughlin & McLeod feud. What appears to be farfetched street scuttlebutt has the ring of truth.  The street talk according to John Martorano is that Dermody…