It’s like this.
Feds indict Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi for racketeering. Whitey flees and Flemmi gets arrested. Before his trial he claims that he and Whitey were informants for the FBI and his handler was John Connolly.
Flemmi’s novel defense resulted in a hearing which exposed the F.B.I’s Top Echelon Informant Program. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fed Wyshak was sent in by self-described F.B.I fixer David Margolis to put a lid on this before the full extent of the T.E.O program was exposed.
Wyshak cut deals with serial killers John Martarano, Steve Flemmi, and Kevin Weeks to implicate Whitey in as many homicides as possible. Wyshark told F.B.I. agent John Connolly that he had to work with him to get Whitey or he will go down with him. This whole thing had to be a one-off. The program had to be protected.
After years on the run Whitey for the first time was indicted for the murders.
Connolly argued that under the terms of the F.B.I. Top Echelon Informant Program he is suppose to protect his informant for everything but murder and the murder cases being built against Whitey were based on totem pole hearsay from wise guys who were given the street instead of life time prison terms.
Connolly had to be sacrificed to save the the hundreds if not thousands of other Top Echelon Informants receiving to protection from the F.B.I.
Connolly goes to prison and Whitey is nowhere to be found. The wise guys who testified at hearings and trials also wrote books and gave interviews all the while believing that their days in court are over. They can say whatever they want and never have to answer for it. Howie Carr wrote that John Matarano said he basically told the feds whatever they wanted to hear.
That’s why it took three proffers from John before he mentioned the name John Connolly. He had to keep on coming back with a different story before Wyshak got what he wanted. Truth be damned.
So now all these “percipient witnesses” have never told the same story twice and have told it many times in the past twenty years.
Not only has Howie Carr written down what these wise guys and others have told him but also Kevin Cullen, Shelly Murphy, Dick Lehr, and others.
And don’t forget un-indicted F.B.I. supervisor John Morris who testified he wanted Whtey Bulger killed because he stood in the way of Morris’s informant Sam Berkowitz. Morris testifies under immunity that he attempted to kill Whitey by telling Kevin Cullen that Whitey was an informant. Cullen printed it with the understanding by doing so there was a high likelihood that someone would kill Bulger.
Morris admitted to taking $5,000. from Whitey. Whitey claims it was more like $700,000.00 plus trips, hotel rooms, girlfriend money etc.
Cullen was on N{R today wondering why nobody killed Bulger after he (Cullen) willingly acted as Morris’s messenger to kill. Cullen stated today that years later he asked a mafioso why Whitey wasn’t “hit” after his story broke. According to Cullen to wise guy said they never believed it was true.
Kevin is trying to have it both ways. he sees the future and he is scared. Just like Howie and Shelly and Dick and others. Only questions to be answered after this thing is giving a sober look are whether our local scribes are willing evil accomplices doing it for professional glory, money, and fame or are they patsies doing it for glory, wealth, and fame?
Listen closely to these people as Whitey’s trial progresses. You can already hear it in their voices and see it in their writing. On the radio today Cullen basically said three things;
1. Don’t trust the F.B.I.
2. Don’t trust the wise-guys
3. Everything the F.B.I. and the wiseguys say about Whitey Bulger and John Connolly is true. Trust me.
And of course he tried to fool people into believing he’s from South Boston. Then he claimed he figured out by himself that Whitey was an informant and his life was in danger when he tipped off the mob that Whitey was an informant. Our hero.
Kevin my friend, you are all over the place with your story. I see the backtracking in your writing and hear it in yoru voice. You better get it together when Carney is asking you questions.
Then Kevin made me spit out my coffee when he vouched for his own credibility, via Judge Wolf, by saying that had he (Cullen) lied when he testified before Judge Wolf an F.B.I. agent would have been called to testify to the contrary?
Tell us Kevin, who are the agents we can trust and who can’t we trust? Perhaps we can trust certain agents at certain times but no at others? You seem to have Devine intuition.
Ethical Question: If Kevin Cullen and the Globe knew that their actions could reasonably have caused the death of a human being.should they have printed it?
Extra Points: Compare and contrast the accusations against John Connolly to that against Cullen and the Globe. Connolly was accused by wise guys of telling other wise guys that someone said that someone said some wise-guy was an in formant. This resulted in the killing of that person. Connolly denies any of this. Kevin Cullen and the Globe print something that a reasonable person would believe could result in a murder and then question why the murder did not occur.
Note: THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHITEY BULGER. He is a gangster handed a role by the feds in a much larger nefarious play. Only a fool can deny this when confronted with the documented evidence.
The Ghost of Sister Superior should be paying the Malden Kid another visit.
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BTW, why do we have to go to the Washington Post to find out what is and is not happening in the Orlando marathon bombing friend waltham murder thing? Obviously the local F.B.I. office royally screwed up. Funny how our local newspapers aren’t rushing to the feds with embarrassing questions.
danfromwaltham says
BMG is now required reading, once again!
2weeksy says
You nailed it again, Ernie!
Cullen and Murphy remind me of the smelly stoners who would peddle homemade tie-dye t-shits outside of Dead shows so they could buy doses and scalp themselves a ticket to get inside. Cullen is peddling his Whitey book to to the Whitey tourists outside the Moakley courthouse. As all you baby-boomer, yuppy, bong-owning, Beamer driving, former Deadheads learned a long time ago, that homemade tye-dye shirt will start to lose its dye and run all over you before Jerry takes the stage. By the time you’re doing the sydney dance to Space with a bra-less flower child, your new T-shirt is practically white again and it’s harshing on your trip. So too will words in Cullen’s Whitey book run off the page by the time the first witness testifies inside at the trial. The trial testimony will show that Cullen and his dirty underpants sidekick Murphy made up a load of garbage, passed themselves off as Southie experts, and soaked everybody! So if you foolishly bought the book from those tinkers and find out during the trial you got suckered, make sure you approach them and tell them you want your money back. Or tell them the dye ran all over you and harshed your trip and it was way unmellow of them. The latter would hurt them more. I predict these two jackasses will play host their national media colleagues this summer and pass themselves off as Etrue Whitey experts to give interviews full of made-up drivel to promote their book. Howie Carr figured it out a long time before Cullen. It is easy to declare yourself an expert about a subject that nobody knows anything about. Nobody involved can give an interview to contradict you.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
or labeling them tinkers.
Now that’s what I call prose.
Questions weeksy, do you know anything about Pat Nee? Cullen was saying on the radio today that Whitey had two or three concerns and one was the Provisional IRA.
I always thought Whitey didn’t care much about the IRA and Pat Nee was the guy doing all the IRA stuff. Isn’t Nee the “New Whitey” running Southie from the shores of Castle Island or something?
If you really are 2weeksie than you know who is who.
What can tell us about Nee weeksie?
if you dare/
Mark L. Bail says
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that your take on the Boston Marathon was shared by many.
bob-gardner says
but I had a chance to look at some old video tapes. I wonder how 75 State St. fits into all this. According to the FBI, nothing criminal happened.
johnk says
I didn’t miss the ad nauseam Whitey posts. But welcome back!
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
n/t
douglasbennett says
I see Kevin Cullen at the Eire Pub every Saturday afternoon and at other times as well. I tried to introduce myself and say hi and he was real jerk. He acted like his s_it did not stink.
Lost a lot of respect for him. Cullen seems to be taking advantage of the misfortune and tragedies of the victims of Bulger in order to make a bigger name for himself.
I don’t trust anything he says.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Why is he in The Erie Pub? Oh right, it makes him sound cool by saying he was there.
Why did a guy who grew up in Malden move to Southie as a married adult then pretend like he’s native? Big deal his cousins grew up there. That was just an excuse.
Kevin has this inner bizarre need to have street cred.
But he doesn’t. He’s a loser. i don’t care he employs him or how many books he sells.
He has issues. Demons. Inferiority complexes. An armchair psychologist can have a field day with him.
And he is amoral. he made the determination that Whitey should be killed and tried to get wise guys to do it.
Kevin is at the very least a stupid dink. At worst an intelligent yet evil individual.
hlpeary says
Glad to see you back in time for the Trial…I have been following it at thetrialofwhiteybulger.com/, Matt Connolly’s blog…which is far more informative than the Globe or the Herald who have become so over-reliant on FBI and US Attorney office deliberate leaks and agenda driven information…He calls them The Repeaters (not reporters)…sad to see.