Yesterday I ended by asking: If Whitey was not a rat, then where does that leave Murderman and Brutalman? Murderman Martorano testified against FBI agent John Connolly in 2002 believing Whitey would never be captured. At trial he came up with a cock and bull story that Whitey was not really an informant for the…

I’ve always known most of the reporters who cover the story of Whitey and his family have no street credentials.  They’ve grown up in another world than that of Whitey or his associates. They can’t really understand the intricacies of a neighborhood like South Boston and its culture no matter how much they try. They…

Yesterday I told of how the media wrote about a letter Whitey Bulger intended to send to Father Robert Drinan, S.J. at the time he was dean of Boston College Law School. Dave Boeri of WBUR asks; “How in the world would Drinan be connected to the “habitual criminal?”   Don’t you like the word “connected” and…

I know you’ve heard this before but during the lull in the action on Whitey’s trial I’m catching up on putting together the material I have gathered on Whitey’s brother Billy. It has always puzzled me that a guy could serve so long in public service with an unblemished record and have people start saying he was…

  I wrote  how the newspapers like to follow up on stories.  The Sheila Burgess story of a driving record involving 7  (minor? her fault?) accidents, 4 speeding, 2 failure to stops for a police officer and 3 other minor incidents (we don’t know the outcome of any criminal charge) which happened in her early…