John Connolly was indicted and tried for a number of murders, conspiracy to commit murders, tipping off Whitey, taking money from Whitey, and all sorts of RICO shit. He was found NOT GUILTY on all of those counts by the federal jury in Boston. He was found guilty of giving his crooked FBI supervisor a case of wine from Whitey that also contained five thousand buckaroos.
That’s right. Not guilties for setting up Roger Wheeler and John Callahan. Not guilties of setting up Brian Halloran and his muscle man/driver Michael Donoghue aka “the innocent bystander”.
The judge gave him ten years and day. (The extra day significantly changed Connolly’s prison status for the worse)
Fred Wyshak didn’t think ten years was enough. That would mean Johnny would come marching home to Boston and talk and talk and talk and talk. So Fred went down to Miami and convinced the state attorney to have his posse sworn in as special state prosecutors and indict Connolly for the Callahan murder he was previously found not guilty of in Boston. Forget about double jeopardy, the supremacy clause, and precedent.
Connolly served his ten years and a day for the feds then went down to Florida for their trial. Team Wyshak tried the same case they did in Boston only this time it brought in the highly coached and rewarded Steve Flemmi. (BTW where is Stevie? He’s not housed by the Bureau of Prisons but rather the Department of Justice.)
BINGO They got their guilty and Connolly got forty years. Try and live through that Johnny Boy.
Only something was fishy. Actually a lot was fishy. That’s when the Miami Innocence Project decided to choose Connolly as the one case it takes on annually. The highly successful program run by Miami Law School gets thousands of requests each year to be the one case they go balls to the wall on.
First requirement for them is that they believe in the client’s complete innocence. Think about that.
BTW I am not going to get into the relationship between one of the state prosecutors on this case and the appellate judge that kept Connolly’s case in limbo for years. She wrote the bizarre and lengthy dissent in yesterday’s decision. Read it and then try and tell me it wasn’t authored from the Moakley Building.
So what I’m telling you is don’t buy all the excrement that our incestuous and obtuse local media put out as they prepare for their comeuppance.
Like The Malden Kid Kevin Cullen suggesting that the murderer of Michael Donoghue was set free in Florida. He even brings in the always willing to play along widow Donoghue and fools the reader from knowing Connolly was found not guilty of killing her husband 16 years ago and never tried again.
Mrs. Donoghue has kept the truth about their dad from her kids for years. It’s said she even reached out to the White Man himself to go along with it. That’s why Jay Carney chooses his words carefully when speaking of Donoghue. Makes sense to me in a world where few things do.
In Whitey’s trial Fred Wyshalk stated that Pat Nee was the up-til-then-unknwon backseat shooter who murdered Halloran and Donoghue. Where’s the outrage towards him Kevin?
Don’t forget people, Kevin Cullen and the Boston Globe admit to doing the same criminal act for which John Connolly was indicted, denied, and found not guilty: bringing to the attention of mobsters/killers that an associate of theirs was a government informant.
Stupid Kevin even boasts about it, the immoral putz. In an interview Cullen was asked why Whitey Bulger was not killed by the bad guys after the newspaper outed him. Kevin answered that he did not know why and always wondered until years later when he asked a wise guy who said they did not believe it.
Point being, Kevin admits Whitey being killed was an expected by-product of his high calling in journalism.
And when they are telling you about all the money Connolly had remember that the feds couldn’t find any. A forensic CPA testified at his trial that all the money was legit and he didn’t start making any until he left the FBI and became head of security for Boston Edison. That’s a big job.
BTW the Black Mass movie producers and writers and p.r. people aren’t liking what they are hearing and seeing concerning the truth behind the ridiculous made-up book they bought into. I hear 75 State Street is suppose to play a part but the lawyers are letting them know about the nefarious conspiracy by John Morris and Globe editors to create a story and re-open investigations for illegitimate purposes.
They’re learning of the affidavit by Harold Brown concerning 75 State Street and some of the scholarly work being done. The words “BASED ON” are getting more prominent in their promotional material everyday.
Like Jesus, John Connolly is coming. And like the bumper sticker says, he’s pissed.
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JimC says
How so?
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
guaranteed he would serve his sentence at country’s toughest federal prisons under worse conditions
mike_cote says
What does the
matter to you if he is a murderer.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
that really sucked
mike_cote says
I expect more from the EB3 players than a insane screed. Where is the mysogyne? Where is the drama? Where is the baseless accusations?
I find this very disappointing! My understanding of this was that there were issue with “statutes of limitation”, and yet, no where in your “diary/screed” do I find the basis for the dismissal. That is, like, wicked bad, reporting dude, not even a stinking allegory!
mike_cote says
n/t
jconway says
I am sure that’s how EB3 spells it.
mike_cote says
I can only up-vote once, unfortunately.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
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mike_cote says
If it isn’t hero worship, then what is it, exactly?
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
this is the last time I will ever respond you. Your witless dribbles are not insightful or funny yet for some bizarre reason you think they are. What’s great is that you have used me to expose yourself. Glad to oblige.
But for now on don’t talk to me.
mike_cote says
You are incapable of offering even the most basic defense, as in, “Why do you care so much about all things Whitey?”. Get a room, indeed!
I remember, back in the day, your witless attacks on the now Mayor of Boston, because he had the nerve to be “A Ginger” and you would make snide remarks about “Ginger” on nearly every comment I made on this site, but God Forbid anyone question your ongoing “Beatlemania” level worship of all things Whitey Bulger. I believe the phrase is, “People in Glass Houses…”, and I will continue to comment as I deem is appropriate.
SomervilleTom says
If there ever was a goon, it is John Connolly. He personifies “Corrupt FBI”.
Whitey Bulger is where he belongs, I think he should thank his lucky stars he did his deeds in Massachusetts. There a lot of places in the world where Whitey Bulger would have been dispatched the same way Ibragim Todashev met his maker — a dozen rounds from an automatic weapon.
It’s no accident that Eric Holder changed “internal policy” to cause ALL interviews by the FBI to be videotaped, with audio, in their entirety.
The decision to release Mr. Connolly is just another in a long line of reasons why I do not live in Florida.
dave-from-hvad says
for posting here, I sympathize with eb3 when I see comments like yours that level accusations against his posts without addressing the specifics in them. How is this post “an insane screed?”
This post raises serious questions about the prosecution of a man who has now been in prison for 10 years. It notes that the case is being taken up by the Miami Innocence Project. As is the case with many readers of my posts on BMG, I don’t have enough information to know whether what eb3 says here is accurate. But how is it insane? How is it baseless?
bob-gardner says
. . . that the Black Mass (movie) producers are worried about the accuracy of the book. They’re not making a documentary. The producers are concerned only with whether the screenplay based on the book will make a good movie.
In any case, if there is a flaw in the book it is that the authors understate the extent to which Bulger’s influence extended not just to the FBI, but to the Boston City Council, the State Police and the Globe itself.
mike_cote says
Relevant quotes from above:
1) That’s right. Not guilties for setting up Roger Wheeler and John Callahan. Not guilties of setting up Brian Halloran and his muscle man/driver Michael Donoghue aka “the innocent bystander”.
2) Like The Malden Kid Kevin Cullen suggesting that the murderer of Michael Donoghue was set free in Florida. He even brings in the always willing to play along widow Donoghue and fools the reader from knowing Connolly was found not guilty of killing her husband 16 years ago and never tried again.
3) Mrs. Donoghue has kept the truth about their dad from her kids for years. It’s said she even reached out to the White Man himself to go along with it. That’s why Jay Carney chooses his words carefully when speaking of Donoghue. Makes sense to me in a world where few things do.
4) Don’t forget people, Kevin Cullen and the Boston Globe admit to doing the same criminal act for which John Connolly was indicted, denied, and found not guilty: bringing to the attention of mobsters/killers that an associate of theirs was a government informant.
5) Stupid Kevin even boasts about it, the immoral putz. In an interview Cullen was asked why Whitey Bulger was not killed by the bad guys after the newspaper outed him. Kevin answered that he did not know why and always wondered until years later when he asked a wise guy who said they did not believe it.
I would suggest that “He even brings in the always willing to play along widow Donoghue and fools the reader from knowing Connolly was found not guilty of killing her husband 16 years ago and never tried again.” amounts to a personal attach against a victim of this whole sordid mess that is both uncalled for and baseless. And I suggest baseless, because the phrase “always willing to play along widow Donoghue and fools the reader from knowing Connolly…” suggests knowledge of the inner workings of this widow’s mind, and implies motives and intentions upon her that it is impossible for EB3 to know, as though it were a statement of fact.
Finally, “Stupid Kevin even boasts about it, the immoral putz.”
It is my opinion, that as with the suggestion that this all represents a travesty of the courts, and that Connolly was tried a second time for the same thing he was tried for in Boston, suggests that in addition to having the sentence vacated because of problems with the statute of limitations (as reported in the Globe), that an issue of double jeopardy also exists in making Connolly some type of fall guy, again without any supporting reference, as if this is all one grand conspiracy by the Boston Globe and Kevin Cullen to lie to the public. Again, something that, like the attacks on the widow, EB3 cannot possible know and they are presented as statements of fact.
An last but not least, the curveball around, “The judge gave him ten years and day. (The extra day significantly changed Connolly’s prison status for the worse)”. Are we suppose to feel sympathy for Connolly now, or are we supposed to be upset that someone who helped facilitate a murder is now free and wiill now return to Boston and “talk and talk and talk and talk”.
ERGO: An Insane Screed: In My Opinion.
dave-from-hvad says
familiar with, so I really can’t debate the specifics with you. But you’ve listed 5 “relevant quotes” from eb3’s post as evidence of its being an “insane screed,” but you haven’t explained why any of those quotes are insane, or even necessarily wrong.
It does appear that a Florida appeals court has overturned Connolly’s conviction, and it appears to be for what even the Globe described as a conclusion that prosecutors had “overreached” in charging Connolly with Callahan’s murder.
The Miami Innocence Project has taken up Connolly’s case — a fact in eb3’s post that you failed to mention.
Does eb3 always play by the rules of fair and impartial journalism? I would agree he doesn’t. Does he often present his opinions as fact? Probably so. Is his case against the Globe and Kevin Cullen air-tight? I don’t think so.
Eb3 is engaging in the time-honored practice of offering a different take from the prevailing point of view or conventional wisdom on a major societal issue of interest. As flawed as his efforts may have been, he has presented some corroborative evidence along the way, and there is at least a ring of plausibility to the arguments he makes. To dismiss it all as insane sounds like an effort to distract attention from what he is actually saying, and consequently it raises more questions to me about a possible connection you might have to this case than about what eb3 has written.
mike_cote says
I have been thinking about what bothers me about this for some time now. Consider the following:
If someone were to post a diary here that went off on the parents of the Sandy Hook children murdered, and in the course of that, suggested that the only possible reason for the parents of the dead children to speak to the press was to somehow line their pockets with donation and that there could be no other possible reason, then I think we could agree that such a claim could be deemed insane.
However, here, EB3 is suggesting that the widow of the person at the center of the Connolly conviction did the following:
I don’t know this person (the widow) from a Adam, but to make a statement like that as a statement of fact, I find deeply offensive. Perhaps it is the proximity of the shooting last weekend at UC Santa Barbara, but I am offended to my very core, that the motives and mindset of the widow of the victim at the center of this case, can have her motives dragged through the mud like this without a single statement or quote to back up such a reprehensible claim.
The problem is the EB3 posts about every single aspect of the Whitey Bulger nonsense as though only he knows the truth, and that everyone else is either an idiot or a conspirator attempting to destroy the “good name” of Whitey Bulger. Does he play fast and loose with the facts, yes, but does that give him license to publicly tar-and-feather people who are not in a position to defend themselves.
In conclusion, I would suggest that his mean spirited attack on the widow crossed a line, perhaps it is a line that, “like pornography” is a line that I know when I see it. But, going back to the thought experiment, I would not let baseless attacks against the parents in either the Sandy Hook of the UC Santa Barbara simply go unchallenged, and I feel similarly towards this widow.
dave-from-hvad says
I would agree that eb3 would be more effective if he were more careful in general and left certain opinions out. (I think he could do better at checking his spelling of names as well). But I still think you have a way to go to convince me the entire post and the overall theory of the case that it presents are insane.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Donoghue was known underling of Halloran. Question. Who drove Halloran to the bar? He didn’t walk there.
bob-gardner says
You hide behind a phony name.
JimC says
I think we’ve been over this.
mike_cote says
I believe I have made my point, if I haven’t then I will accept defeat. I will simply have to live with being “the stupidest and most obnoxious person on BMG”.
kirth says
Not the Globe‘s.
mike_cote says
Very funny, though!
JimC says
I keep seeing his name in the title.