I like Howie’s revelation of JOEJOEJOE’s recent move from Mom’s basement in Cambridge to an address in Brookline just last week...so he could be described in the Globe as ‘the Brookline resident’ (lives in the dsitrict) for the puff piece...
Kennedys just assume wherever they move to, locals should swoon and let them take their political seats (and empty their wallets).
Wed column ping
Isn’t it rich? We pick up tab for fat-cat defendants
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Another Wednesday, another meeting of the feds’ hackerama grand jury in Worcester.
And if sticky-fingered Sal DiMasi is called, you can bet a lawyer will be waiting outside in the hall, and guess who’ll be paying for the millionaire solon’s mouthpiece.
Got a mirror? Yes, you and me and all the rest of us taxpayers, the same chumps who also are paying for all of Whitey Bulger’s attorneys who are going through the hundreds of thousands of pages of discovery so that the accused octogenarian serial killer can be ready for trial, probably early next year.
Whatever happened to well-heeled gangsters, crooked pols and family wiper-outers paying for their own lawyers? Whatever happened to, you do bad, you pick up the tab?
Free legal services — they’re not just for illegal aliens anymore.
Think about it. Here’s Sal DiMasi, the third speaker in a row convicted of a felony. This bum once owned a vacation home in Marstons Mills, had three mortgages on his North End condo and two wives — but last year Sal had the audacity to claim that he was broke. Now we’re paying for his appeal, on what amounts to the novel legal grounds that accepting a bribe isn’t really a crime
Then there’s Whitey Bulger. He was captured last year with $822,000 cash. The feds have discovered at least five safe-deposit boxes around the world where he had millions more stashed. How much of his ill-gotten drug profits haven’t they found yet?
His fellow serial killer and partner Stevie Flemmi once claimed under oath that they would sometimes get a million bucks cash for “protecting” just one shipment of marijuana. Yet now we’re supposed to believe it’s all gone?
And now comes Thomas Mortimer IV, accused of massacring his wife, two kids and mother-in-law in 2010.
His late son had a $25,000 college fund, he has a $13,000 IRA, a grand in a checking account and two cars — yet he refuses to pay a dime toward his legal defense. He, too, claims to be indigent. Guess he wants to save his dough for the prison commissary, because he doesn’t have any family left to put any dough into his account.
It’s almost enough to make you appreciate gangster Nino Bufalino and Probation hack Jack O’Brien. They were indicted, and you were invited — to their legal-defense fundraisers. You won’t be seeing many more of those in the future, the way things are going.
You can understand why your average wiseguy recoils at paying his own way. The feds usually have hundreds of hours of wiretaps and bugs of Mob defendants bragging about all the crimes they’ve committed.
“Why am I gonna pay some lawyer a half-million bucks so I can get a hundred years?” one hoodlum recently asked. “I can get the same hundred years just as easy with a public defender. Might as well hide the money where my family can find it.”
Isn’t that right, Whitey?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1405361
Wed column ping
Isn’t it rich? We pick up tab for fat-cat defendants
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Another Wednesday, another meeting of the feds’ hackerama grand jury in Worcester.
And if sticky-fingered Sal DiMasi is called, you can bet a lawyer will be waiting outside in the hall, and guess who’ll be paying for the millionaire solon’s mouthpiece.
Got a mirror? Yes, you and me and all the rest of us taxpayers, the same chumps who also are paying for all of Whitey Bulger’s attorneys who are going through the hundreds of thousands of pages of discovery so that the accused octogenarian serial killer can be ready for trial, probably early next year.
Whatever happened to well-heeled gangsters, crooked pols and family wiper-outers paying for their own lawyers? Whatever happened to, you do bad, you pick up the tab?
Free legal services — they’re not just for illegal aliens anymore.
Think about it. Here’s Sal DiMasi, the third speaker in a row convicted of a felony. This bum once owned a vacation home in Marstons Mills, had three mortgages on his North End condo and two wives — but last year Sal had the audacity to claim that he was broke. Now we’re paying for his appeal, on what amounts to the novel legal grounds that accepting a bribe isn’t really a crime
Then there’s Whitey Bulger. He was captured last year with $822,000 cash. The feds have discovered at least five safe-deposit boxes around the world where he had millions more stashed. How much of his ill-gotten drug profits haven’t they found yet?
His fellow serial killer and partner Stevie Flemmi once claimed under oath that they would sometimes get a million bucks cash for “protecting” just one shipment of marijuana. Yet now we’re supposed to believe it’s all gone?
And now comes Thomas Mortimer IV, accused of massacring his wife, two kids and mother-in-law in 2010.
His late son had a $25,000 college fund, he has a $13,000 IRA, a grand in a checking account and two cars — yet he refuses to pay a dime toward his legal defense. He, too, claims to be indigent. Guess he wants to save his dough for the prison commissary, because he doesn’t have any family left to put any dough into his account.
It’s almost enough to make you appreciate gangster Nino Bufalino and Probation hack Jack O’Brien. They were indicted, and you were invited — to their legal-defense fundraisers. You won’t be seeing many more of those in the future, the way things are going.
You can understand why your average wiseguy recoils at paying his own way. The feds usually have hundreds of hours of wiretaps and bugs of Mob defendants bragging about all the crimes they’ve committed.
“Why am I gonna pay some lawyer a half-million bucks so I can get a hundred years?” one hoodlum recently asked. “I can get the same hundred years just as easy with a public defender. Might as well hide the money where my family can find it.”
Isn’t that right, Whitey?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1405361
Kennedys just assume KNOW wherever they move to, locals should WILL swoon and let them take their political seats (and empty their wallets).