When I first started practicing law I represented a Teamsters Local. It had a dispute with some Cambridge City folk. I went across the Charles River in an attempt to mediate the dispute which I learned could not be done because my client preferred a good fight to a good settlement. That is when I…

The Boston’s U.S. attorney’s office is about to dole out the money to the family of people who it believes were murdered by Whitey. Tony Veranis was murdered by John Martorano. He was shot in the back of the head after being pistol whipped. Martorano at first said Tony tried to draw on him but…

A recent article (hat tip Henry) in Who.What.Why. (WWW) brings up the old bugaboos about the FBI role in the Marathon Terrorist Attack (MTA). I have identified these before.The manner in which the FBI acted after the bombing made no sense in my experience doing investigations. On top of that in view of the FBIs…

There is a song about smiles that make us happy and others that make us blue. Judy Garland helped popularize the song. The third line of this song written in 1917 and sung by Judy is: “There are smiles that steal away the teardrops.” Writing about the news today “There is news that steal away…

Yvonne Abraham wrote a compelling column in the Globe telling how Angel Ecchavia has just been granted a new trial after 21 years in prison for the first degree murder of a drug dealer in “the city of sin.” Ecchavia, like every other guy in prison, proclaimed his innocence. She writes: “No physical evidence linked…

I’m serious. If there is anything on your computer that the FBI might be interested in viewing leave it alone. Don’t touch it. Please, for your own sake. Whatever it is let it be. It might be something that when the FBI learns about it might get you involved in facing a criminal punishment of…