The British press is agog with the story of British Prince Andrew  who has been accused by a woman of having sex with her when she was underage as shown by the stories here and here. Buckingham Palace has said the claims of the woman are untrue as you would expect. It seems there is a…

Happy New Year to you all. This year we return to the traditional New Year’s Day that had football games the mattered. The bowl system is pretty silly with teams that have been able to do no better than break even given a chance to play in the post season. Money rules. I watched two…

The song “It Was A Very Good Year” was written in 1961 but made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1965. Sinatra was described by J. Edgar Hoover as having a “hoodlum complex.” Frank wasn’t bashful when it came to hanging around with some of the Mafia types. One writer noted: “The greed and chutzpah of…

1964 was a big year for two of the FBI’s top echelon informants. Gregory Scarpa born in May of 1928 and Stephen Flemmi born in June 1934. Both men had become top echelon informants in the 1960s and were working providing the FBI with information on others. Each man had a person in the FBI…

Almost a couple of years ago in February of 2012 I wrote a post entitled: “Prosecutorial Discretion – It’s the Hard Decisions That Tell Us Whether A Prosecutor is Made of Sterner Stuff.”  The post was occasioned by an event that happened in Weymouth, Norfolk County. Michael Morrissey is the District Attorney in that county. A young…