It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  Maybe because I had the computer and a desk in front of me and a cup of coffee I had something to do while the final arguments were being made. Maybe because both sides presented their arguments well, given what they had to work with….

Patty writes: (1) DURING WYSHAK’S CLOSING STATEMENT TOMORROW, HE WILL PRETEND TO CHOKE UP AND CRY A MINIMUM OF 2 TIMES (2) WYSHAK WILL THEN ‘REGAIN HIS COMPOSURE’ ENOUGH TO MAKE A MINIMUM OF 3 TALKING OBJECTIONS DURING THE DEFENSE’S CLOSING ARGUMENT. (3) WYSHAK WILL ALSO MENTION WILLIAM BULGER A MINIMUM OF 3 TIMES. DOES…

“The sun is shining, oh happy day, no more troubles, no skies of gray” Those are the lyrics I should be humming now that we are at the penultimate day of the trial., Instead I’m thinking of the Soviet Politburo where Comrade Stalin presided, or the island of Cuba where Fidel Castro still lives on….

When you read this report keep in mind that most of the handlers don’t report when their informants are committing crimes and also that the FBI SACs, as we learned Friday from long time secretary,are in the habit of ordering reports that may be embarrassing destroyed. Some of this I talked about in my book, Don’t…

(This is being published each Sunday in serial form. For full view of past postings go here. ) The truth is that during the two plus months Foley and White trailed Naimovich they came up with nothing; neither did Captain Mattioli and Sergeant Sullivan who were watching him in the office. Foley candidly admits that what they came…

It’s over. It ended with Whitey speaking in a surprisingly non-gangster like voice which seemed to contradict the picture we had of the man. If it were a movie a man with a voice like his would never have been cast in the role of Whitey. Whitey told the court he was not giving up…