Paul Krugman in the NY Times wrote about Putin’s bubble bursting. It got me thinking of an article that I had read about the Ukrainian “shantrapa” that was written about four years ago. Putin’s in trouble now because his cronies have stolen all Russia’s wealth and invested it abroad in their own names. That was not…

Here’s Whitey Bulger’s problem – he doesn’t want to be known as an informant nor does he want to be known as a person who murders women. Beyond that he’s quite proud of being known as a guy who went around killing some people, extorting others, strong arming some, and running gambling, loan sharking and…

Here’s Whitey Bulger’s problem – he doesn’t want to be called an informant nor does he want to be known as a person who murders women. Say anything else about him and he’ll let it pass. I’ll write about his relationship with women in another post. Now I want to write about him being an…

Over two years ago Judge Mark Wolf came down with the holding in the case involving Robert Kosilek who was convicted in 1990 of murdering his wife. He changed her name in 1993 to Michelle Kosilek. Wolf ruled that she was entitled to a sex change operation also known as a sex-reassignment surgery that had…

The one catch Aaron Hernandez will always remember is when the Massachusetts Superior Court bosses tossed him Judge Garsh to sit on his case. Here’s why Aaron Hernandez will forever be delighted Judge Garsh is in charge of his trial. She and the prosecutor McCauley trying the case have had a history of bitterness between…

Did you ever see that map drawn up by some New Yorker that was on the front page of the New Yorker Magazine that shows the United States from a New York City resident’s viewpoint?  Most of the map is dominated by New York City and beyond the Hudson the rest of the country seems…