Great stuff. Judge Young tells Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Wyshak to find other cases similar to the prosecution of the O’Brien Crime Syndicate.
US District Court Judge William G. Young asked prosecutors to lay out a theory of their case during a final status conference Tuesday, and he told prosecutors to research other cases that substantiated the kind of bribery allegations that O’Brien and his deputies face.
Judge Young boxed The Fred-Dog in like a law school professor would a first year student in the second week of September. Check this out:
Prosecutors have alleged [The O’Brien Crime Syndicate] violated state bribery laws, but Young said, “I’m not sure Massachusetts recognizes that.”
“I’d like to see your best cases on that,” the judge said.
Big thank you to the Globe for printing this. Really, a public service. Brian McGrory gets out of bed every morning without a chip on his shoulder and says, “How can my co-workers and I do good today?” He makes Pope Francis look like Joan Crawford.
Anyway, with the Pulitzer Prize coverage the Globe’s had in creating, I mean reporting of the O’Brien Crime Syndicate’s activities it’s funny how this story is not front paged on the A or Metro sections but rather banished to upper right corner of page B4.
Well at least there is BostonGlobe.com. What’s this? Nowhere on the vast digital front page. Thank God for google’s ability to narrow a search to within a day. Otherwise I might not have been able to share this fine Pulitzer Prize winning reporting with you.
One other thing. Somehow the excellent reporter failed to mention that Judge Young ordered our Supreme Judicial Court to turn over its files on probation hirings. That’s big. Funny how the Globe missed it. Even the best have bad days I guess.
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Hey Steve Crosby, Why Don’y You Just Recuse Yourself? Are You In Too Deep? Is This a Jack Ruby/Senator Geary Thing?
Reasonable to ask, no?
Remember appearance matters big time in this gig. It’s in the job description.
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Unless you want Fred Wyshak to come to your house and indict you, your spouse and kids for racketeering based on the fact that you and they conspired to make your bosses happy so the paychecks would keep coming you will follow me on twitter.
Christopher says
or do you just not like the diarist?
mike_cote says
I believe it implies a mob connection, which I think is a bit of a leap.
mike_cote says
appears to be a character in the Godfather II. So that is quite a leap in logic.
David says
Christopher was responding to a comment that the management has deleted.
mike_cote says
If I may be so bold, because I have seen recipes for chicken used before as an indication of the belief that the diary was “trollish”.
SomervilleTom says
I don’t know why, but special rules apply to EB3. Always have.
Christopher says
…I was not asking for the comment to be deleted.
mike_cote says
I just never had a comment deleted before and I am not sure in what manner I stepped over some line or rule. EB3 has been snarky to me in the past, and I was just being snarky back, so I am just unsure of what I did or said that merited the deletion, but I did not connect the deletion with what you said.
Bugger all!
HeartlandDem says
But here’s some food for thought.