The Mafia in Boston was hurt in particular by three men from the federal government between 1960 and 1990. In 1960 the Mafia  was a very powerful group in Boston; by the end of the 1980s it was a group of stumblebums unable to keep out of prison. When the 1960s came we had the…

I consider one of Black Mass’s greatest failures is that it did not address the ramifications of the FBI’ Top Echelon Informant program.  This program established at the highest levels of the FBI and approved by J.Edgar Hoover was in operation in all 56 of the FBI offices throughout the country. It was a secret…

The Boston Globe’s Ben Hur Ty Burr gives us the view from inside the factory:  “It’s a solid if not stellar crime drama, well put together, very well acted, and lacking only a genuine reason to exist. . . .  And “Black Mass” is heavily invested in presenting Whitey as Satan from Southie, a figure…

The way Black Mass is written it seems the authors had an agreement with the FBI to pretend that its Top Echelon Informant program did not operate as it does; or else they were oblivious that what the FBI puts on paper for show is not how the FBI operates. Back in the early 1960s…

I pointed out that the authors of Black Mass started with a wrong premise. They did this because they are newspaper writers and are unable to separate the wheat from the chaff. They have no idea what is really going on but make things up to fill their gap in knowledge as they did in…

Anyone who read Black Mass remembers the alleged meeting at Wollaston Beach where Whitey comes out of the mist and enters the car where FBI Agent John Connolly is waiting. Connolly, the skilled FBI man is supposedly going to recruit Whitey to be an informant telling him the Mafia has people inside law enforcement so…