The idea the FBI would not have had Stevie Flemmi as an informant but would chase after Connolly and hope that Connolly could bring Stevie into the fold just does not hold water. Of all people, Howie Carr recognizes this. As much as he makes Whitey the personification of all things evil, he knows the FBI…
§31: Putting Whitey Before Flemmi Doesn’t Work (Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years:)
Keep in mind for the FBI Stevie Flemmi was the lynch-pin. It got him out of a murder, a major felony (blowing up a lawyer’s car) and a fugitive from justice charge after he got back from being on the run in May 1974. It knew he was the one with access to the Mafia….
Getting Back To The Reexamination of Whitey Bulger
I’ve suggested so far based on the evidence I could find that some of the important things that have been written about Whitey’s life are wrong. Here are some of what I suggest happened that contradicts the stories put out by the media authors. They have it when Whitey he got out of prison he…
Thoughts On Rico Before I Go Back To Whitey
The temptation is to continue writing about H. Paul Rico who was maliciously maligned by the media, prosecutors, investigators and courts if the highly informative book Rico is to be believed. I must avoid that and return to Whitey’s life from which I have strayed like a lamb in Ireland standing in peril of falling over…
Media Lies: Rico – The FBI Fights Back
H. Paul Rico. What do you know about him. Here’s what Black Mass says: “Rico, a dashing senior agent who favored a Chesterfield topcoat and French cuffs, cultivated Flemmi because of his access to the New England Mafia.” “In 1967 Flemmi regularly told Rico about his illegal football lottery operation . . . [i]n 1968…
The Judicial Guessing Game: Making Findings Of Fact From Suspect Information.
I wrote about this a while back when I asked how can we trust Judge Wolf’s findings when he’s trying to figure out what parts of a liar’s testimony to believe. I bring it up again because I am 75% through a book which I will write about tomorrow that reinforces what I have been…