Posted on 11/08/2007 6:53:40 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
Drug use, identity theft described in testimony
The federal trial of a rogue motorcycle cop threatens to blow the lid off alleged widespread corruption within the Boston Police Department as a key witness drops daily bombshells implicating unindicted officers allegedly involved in illicit drug use, identity fraud and wild sex romps.
Roberto “Kiko” Pulido, 42, an 11-year veteran of the force, is on the hot seat in U.S. District Court charged with attempted possession and conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He and two other officers, Nelson Carrasquillo and Carlos Pizarro - both of whom have since pleaded guilty to like offenses - were busted by the FBI last year after they agreed to provide a truckload of cocaine safe passage to Boston from the state’s western border.
A seemingly troubled police Commissioner Edward M. Davis explained yesterday his internal affairs investigators can’t move against cops identified in court as potentially tainted until the conclusion of Pulido’s trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Yesterday, assistant U.S. Attorney John McNeil played for jurors a phone call Pulido allegedly placed April 23, 2006, to a BPD officer identified in court as Carl Shorter, asking Shorter to get the “name and address” off a couple of license plates for him.According to the testimony of FBI Special Agent Kevin Constantine, Pulido made the call while waiting for undercover feds he thought were drug dealers to meet him in Jamaica Plain. Pulido, Constantine said, was paid $20,000 to provide protection for the transport of 40 kilos of coke.
Didn’t Jack Nicholson, Marky Mark, Matt Damon and Reotardo DeCaprio just star in this movie?
You would think it was fiction, but not in my state, it has always been reality.
Massachusetts has always been one of the most politically corrupt states in the country, but the voters here keep electing the same crooks year after year.
Dishonest Boston Cops!? Wow ... I’m stunned! (/S)
More truthful!
Corruption amongst civil servants in Boston?
I thought that was restricted to the politicians of Massachussetts.
(/sarc)
Honestly, it's getting re-goddamn-diculous, to quote James Gardner.
"If he can't even run his own life
I'll be damned if he'll run mine."
Nifong rides again!!!!
ok he was a prosecutor but why does the public understand good cops are the EXCEPTION but the MSM fails this?
I thought that was restricted to the politicians of Massachussetts.
And to the FBI. Ever wonder how J. Edger Hoover got that info on the murdered civil rights leaders, that he was so quick to brag about to President Johnson?
Linda Schiro testified at the trial of one-time FBI agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, who is accused of secretly aligning himself with mobster Gregory Scarpa Sr., an informant within one of the warring factions of the Colombo crime family.
She testified that she went to Mississippi in 1964 after Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to help find the bodies of slain civil rights workers.
She said she witnessed an FBI agent delivering a gun and a wad of cash to Scarpa in their Mississippi hotel room.
Scarpa later told her he had forced someone to reveal the location of the workers' bodies by "putting a gun in the guy's mouth and threatening him," said Schiro.
What state isn't, any more? We're on the fast track to Third World status, and local government corruption is at the heart of it.
I can easily see a situation where in ten years American businesses are moving all of their headquarters operations to Asian countries like China, because they will only have to bribe one known quantity instead of dozens of little ones.
OK, if convicting the FBI is the topic, let’s at least throw in
a “close to home” (Boston/Mass) case:
“John “Zip” Connolly is a former FBI agent, currently in federal prison
for racketeering and obstruction of justice stemming from his relationship
with Whitey Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connolly_%28FBI%29
I lived in the Democratic People’s Republic of New Jersey for a couple of years.
I thought THAT place was run “By Crooks For Crooks”.......
But it's not just close to their Boston-area home. Connolly and Whitey Bulger and other Winter Hill mob crew members were responsible, among other things, for organized crime murders in Miami, Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tennessee/Mississippi.
Indeed, one of the killers who tried to murder Tennessee *Walking Tall* Sheriff Buford Pusser on 12 August 1968 but instead killed his wife Pauline instead was Boston hit man Carmine Raymond *Ray Gags* Gagliardi, formerly of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
Amusingly, when the Feebies caight up with Ray Gags, it was during a Christmastime visit to his mudder's house, though it's now a bit unclear if his brudder, a local cop, was at hoime at the time or not, nor if he was the one who tipped of the feds that mom had a visitor, or had been protecting him.
Likewise, Steve *The Rifleman* Flemmi's brother Mikey was among the Boys in Blue of the Boston Police Department, having worked his way up the rankls from beat cop to crime scene photog. Accordingly, the courts granted him an earlier release date in 2011, which might give him a chance to hide out from anyone who still wants him kept quiet, whether about the other feds and BPD cops in on the gang's activities, and of course the elusive Whitey is still wanted, and is either hiding out where he's well-protected, or his remains are well-hidden.
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