This is today’s quiz: Is the most evil person ever to walk the streets of Boston Whitey (James J. Bulger, Jr.) or Joker (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev)? I ask this on the eve of the sentencing of Whitey when he is to be told, something he already knows, that he will not spend Thanksgiving at the Plymouth…
The Great Charade – Like the Red Sox Parade
This week we see the commencement of the Great Charade which will receive as much coverage in the local media as the Red Sox Parade. If some had their innermost wishes fulfilled, Whitey Bulger would be fettered to a stake on the back of a duck boat and driven through the streets of Boston. Then…
Army Hero’s Advice To The FBI: Benghazi, Sniper Rifles and Tun Tavern
My good friend Ed called me to ask if all was OK. His call was prompted by not seeing any post by me on the incident involving the FBI agent who left his sniper rifle and an assault weapon in his vehicle. He thought that was a gift that I could not refuse. I suppose…
Howie Winter – Homes and FBI
John Martorano tells in his book Murderman Hitman that he was a member of the Winter Hill gang and he and Howie Winter got called by Mafia Underboss Gerry Angiulo to come down and have a little chat. They met with Gerry and he told them that Indian Al and his gang had killed one…
Cops and Guns: Too Anxious To Shoot First
I’ve just read about the gunning down of 13-year-old eight grade boy, Andy Lopez, by a deputy sheriffs in California, He was not threatening anyone. The deputies saw him walking down the street carrying what to the cops looked like an AK-47 but was actually a replica gun. They pulled their car up behind him, got out…
The Spoils of FBI Deceit: Was Todashev Executed? Will Joker Tsarnaev Go Free?
In my book “Don’t Embarrass The Family” I made a handful of suggestions for changes in the FBI hoping it would escape the fetters placed on it during the 48 year reign of J. Edgar Hoover. One, perhaps the major one, was that the FBI should record all interrogation it conducts of suspects or other people who…