The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has decided that you can be sued for an action you may have committed over 35 years and probably up to more than 45 years ago. Judge Margot Botsford, the senior woman justice on the court, issued a decision this week putting huge swath of Massachusetts residents who lived…
WHITEY: The Joe Berlinger Film: Whitey’s Secret and Improbable Meeting With AUSA Jeremiah O’Sullivan
Stevie Flemmi testified he had a deal with the FBI. He said he was promised protection from the FBI if he served as an informant. He told Judge Wolf during a hearing that at a dinner at the house of FBI Supervisor John Morris where both Agent Connolly and Whitey Bulger were present, Morris told…
WHITEY: The Joe Berlinger Film: The Lawyers Spinning the Story; The FBI S.O.P.
I’ve written how in the documentary AUSA Brian Kelly to justify the horrendous deals that the federal prosecutors made with defendants Martorano, Salemme, Flemmi and Weeks is compelled to magnify the importance of Whitey by saying he was involved in a reign of terror. From a different perspective Lawyer Jay Carney adds into this idea…
WHITEY: The Joe Berlinger Film: The Non Existent Reign of Terror – No One Knew About the Murders
I find it interesting how people speak and do not recognize they are contradicting themselves. In the Berlinger film Prosecutor Brian Kelly sitting between two other prosecutors, Zachary Hafer and Fred Wyshak, is interviewed about the Whitey case. He told us how “Bulger’s reign of terror” was brought to an end by good cops. He…
The New NFL Enterprise: Making Money From The Gambling Fans
Who would have believed it that the 32 billionaire NFL owners recognizing the importance of gambling to their success in making money off of their individual confederacy of players would turn to it, the one thing that would further undermine the integrity of their game. Yesterday I wrote how the NFL was on the decline based…
The Worst Way To Spend A Fall Sunday: Watching the Failing NFL
This all started to come together for me recently. It was on one of those fine fall Sundays. I was lured outside by the beautiful weather. Together with some other people we went for a long walk in the woods; the following Sunday it was a trek over to the cranberry bogs. The people I…