Here’s a quote from a Howie Carr column right after Marty Walsh was elected.
‘While having lunch with my favorite federal prosecutor, he said, “Mayor Marty Walsh, I like the ring of that name in an indictment.”
To undertand the mindset of the federal prosecutor (Fred Wyshak) and the local press (The Boston Globe) here’s some background.
Years ago people from The Boston Globe and the Justice Department made a deal with the devil and outed an FBI informant. The stink of that criminal act still smells in the Globe’s reporting. Today’s headlines included.
The leak came from an FBI supervisor who was taking money from a wise-guy informant. He got nervous and knew it was best if the guy was dead.
At his request The Globe Spotlight team (Kevin Cullen and the two authors of Black Mass) exposed the FBI informant and everyone waited for his underworld execution. It never came.
Years later in an interview on public radio Kevin Cullen was asked why the informant was not killed after the Globe exposed him. Cullen responded that he always wondered that himself. (He later explained that he once asked a wise guy the same question and was told “we didn’t believe it.”)
Think about this. The Globe intentionally tried but failed to have a person killed. Think some more please.
Putting this in prospective John Connolly was tried and acquitted in federal court in Boston for the exact same thing; diming out an informant to wise guys thereby causing his murder.
Fred Wyshak then went down to Florida, got sworn in as a special Florida state’s attorney, and retried Connolly on the same charge.
Double jeopardy you say? Bahaha! Fred don’t need no schtinkin Constitution.
Serial killers facing multiple life sentences were set free after they testified for Fred.
Back to the leak. The corrupt FBI supervisor admitted to attemting to murder the informant and taking money from him. As a reward for his honesty he was promoted few times and then retired with a full pension.
This is good background for any story you read in the Boston Globe concerning federal investigations and indictments in Boston. The Globe and Fred Wyshak are joined at the hip. Wyshak does everything but cash the paychecks for Shelly Murphy, Milton Valencia, Kevin Cullen, and others.
There is a diagnosis for Fred Wyshak. Total whack job. Yet the home office lets him do his thing. He should not have the job he has. A high level dude named Margolis is most likely his enabler.
For the past five years Wyshak has cast his heavy shadow over Beacon Hill with grand juries sitting in Worcester (where his favorite judge sits) making every elected pol in MA shit their pants when they hear his name.
Please note: Carmen Ortiz like all US attorneys is a figurehead. A political appointment who does what she is told. Much like an ambassador. Wyshak and the Globe use her as a deflection. They don’t respect her. They use her.
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Now Fred Wyshak wants the mayor.
He and The Globe want to walk in to a zoo, find a caged lion that wouldn’t hurt a fly, drug it so it becomes less of a threat,( remember, deep down they are big fucking pussies) shoot in the head, then convince everyone it was wild and dangerous and about to kill every living thing within miles.
That is what they are doing to Marty Walsh. Absotively.
So they have this poor bastard named Ken Brissette who use to work for Deval’s tourism board and was hired by the new mayor to do more or less the same for the city.
One day some teamsters are bitching to him about Top Chef not hiring union labor – that’s what unions do, it’s their job – and tells Brisette they are going to picket the Parker House. Brissette lets the Parker House know. They say thank you very much. The Parker House tells anyone who will listen that Brissette gave them a friendly call that was greatly appreciated.
The Globe is then leaked info showing the feds pushing a case that by making that call to the Parker House Brissette was committing a federal crime and is in big fucking trouble.
(Question: Knowing this would you take a job with the city that required any thought?)
That is the case and the feds will indict Brissitte and tell him he’s going to prison for years and years unless he says that Mayor Walsh told him to threatened people on behalf of trade unions.
The proof? A few years ago when the mayor’s job was to get unioj workers hired on construction jobs throughout greater Boston he informed a developer in Somerville the well known fact the people who sit on the zoning board on Boston like to see 100% union on projects outside of Boston also.
Did you ever have a creative writing assignment in grade school? Usually a picture with one or two words and you were asked to create a story behind it? That’s what Fred Wyshak and the Globe are doing right now.
Just in time for election season. Tito Jackson as the person who is right to lead the city in the 21st century not like the federally investigated, union thug, Irish Catholic piece of shit from Savin Hill.
That’s what’s happening here folks.
They sell this fiction better than the great Ric Flair sold a flying-drop-elbow. Looks pretty believable even when unbelievable.
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Yesterday the feds took it on the chin with the Wynn acquittals. Funny how everything Walsh accused the Gaming Commission and Wynn of doing came out in the trial. Wynn and Mintz Levin knew all about Lighbody and the unclean hands. The Marty knew what they were up to the trial proved it.
What’s funny is it now seems that Mintz Levin and Wynn and the Gaming Commission aren’t as close as they once were.
As a result Commonwealth Magazine received its marching orders and gave detailed accounts of the trial. Especially how Wynn and the Gaming Commission used the non-illegal activities on Lightbody to get tens of millions of dollars off the sale price.
How the hell does that work? Who paid whom what? Steve Crosby et al. gave Wynn a $40 million dollar kiss.
Where’s that investigation Fred?
And where is The Boston Globe reporting?
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Yesterday the mayor announces that every Boston public school student who graduates with 2.2 g.p.a. or better will receive free tuition at Roxbury and Bunker Hill Community Colleges.
Look for it. It’s somewhere on the Globe web site. Below the fed probes and the grand prix pulling out and other bullshit.
The Boston Globe is a sad pathetic publication employing too many amoral social outcasts (like McGrory and Cullen) who have a special place in hell waiting for them.
mike_cote says
I tried to go back and find one of your past diaries on the topic, but I found the whole exercise terribly tedious.
And please, listing that troll Howie Carr as a reputable source is pathetic, IMHO. 😉
JimC says
What’s your source on this, Ernie?
Christopher says
EB3 doesn’t need no stinkin’ sources!:)
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
The FBI supervisor was John Morris and the informant was Whitey Bulger. The Globe proudly disclosed Whitey was an informant many years ago.
John Morris was the leak. This all came out in the multiple hearings and trials after Whitey fled.
Morris admiited leaking the info and admitted taking money from Whitey.
I personally heard Kevin Cullen on public radio agreeing that Whitey should have been killed because of the globe story. Every idiot knows outing an informant is a death warrant.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Nice Op-Ed in the Globe by your brother and Nancy Gertner.
We are becoming a fascist state run out of the Moakley building
JimC says
I think he enjoyed chiding the Globe.
bob-gardner says
As good a reason as any for Catherine Greig to want to stay in jail. Don’t believe the stuff about how it’s because she’s just being loyal to Whitey Bulger. Nothing she could possibly say can have any effect on Bulger either way.
On the other hand, if half of what EB3 says about the FBI were true, you would expect her to jump at the chance to get up on the stand and testify about the various FBI personnel who aided Bulger in his flight. Either Bulger kept her in the dark for years, or there were no such agents.