The Marines teach that you don’t leave your fellow Marines behind on the battlefield, whether wounded or dead. Sometimes in doing that you may suffer other casualties but it is a risk you take because you know one of the stricken would take it for you. It is always comforting knowing that your buddies will…
Whitey’s Bulger’s Handler FBI Agent John Connolly Was Properly Convicted in Boston But Should Not Still Be In Jail
There are some people who think former FBI John Connolly got a raw deal. You won’t find many of them in the media. I’ve suggested much of Connolly’s problem is due to him not speaking up when he should have done so. I’m told if he did he would have somehow gotten buried by the…
The Government’s Great Deal With A Serial Murderer Who Brags About His Deeds
Gangster Thursday is a good day to talk about Howard Carr’s big buddy John Martorano. Martorano is walking the street after having murdered twenty persons. People who kill that many people usually are called serial murderers and locked up for life. In Texas and Florida people are executed for killing one or two people….
How The FBI Framed An Innocent Massachusetts State Trooper
My telling of the story of Trooper John Naimovich must be like a serialization. To understand it you have to know what I’ve written on past Wednesdays. Serialization is as old as Sheherazade’s stories in One Thousand and One Nights. It gained immense popularity in the 19th Century when most good authors like Dickens produced…
Whitey Bulger’s Friends — The FBI – Fidelity Before Integrity
In 1988 – I place the time then because it was in that year that the Boston Globe came out with the Spotlight Team article on the Bulger brothers – I received a call from Kevin Cullen a Globe columnist. I’d talked to Kevin on occasion over the years. This time he wanted to know…
Whitey’s Murder Victims — The Burden on the Government
Whitey’s charged with 19 murders listed by date: Michael Milarno (3/8/73), Al Plummer (3/19/73), William O’Brien (3/24/73), James O’Toole (12/1/73) , Al Notorangeli,(2/21/74), James Sousa (10/74). Then Paul McGonagle (11/74), Edward Connors (6/12/75) Thomas King (11/5/75), Francis ‘Buddy” Leonard (11/6/75) , Richard Castucci (12/30/76), Roger Wheeler (5/27/81), Debra Davis (late 1981), Brian Halloran (5/11/82), Michael…